The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg
English | Apr 1, 2001 | ISBN: 0716741067 | 353 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | Apr 1, 2001 | ISBN: 0716741067 | 353 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a lady states that tea poured into milk tastes differently than that of milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the scientific minds of the group. But one guest, by the name Ronald Aylmer Fisher, proposes to scientifically test the lady's hypothesis. There was no better person to conduct such a test. For Fisher had brought to the field of statistics an emphasis on controlling the methods for obtaining data and the importance of interpretation. He knew that how the data was gathered and applied was as important as the data themselves.
In The Lady Tasting Tea, readers will encounter not only Ronald Fisher's theories (and their repercussions), but the ideas of dozens of men and women whose revolutionary work affects our everyday lives.