When in doubt, play chromatic
Joe Pass
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I am going to open an anarchist bookshop but with franchise potential.
Amber in Dating Amber
Infrequent doesn’t disprove
There is no logical warrant for considering an event known to occur in a given hypothesis, even if infrequently, as disproving the hypothesis.
Joseph Berkson in “Tests of significance considered as evidence”. Journal of the American Statistical Association 37: 325-335.
Night
All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.
The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
Not a contribution to science
Null hypotheses of no difference are usually known to be false before the data are collected … when they are, their rejection or acceptance simply reflects the size of the sample and the power of the test, and is not a contribution to science
Savage 1957 cited by Nelder 1999 “From Statistics to Statistical Science”. The Statistician 48(2): 257-269.