The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for, " is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another. Robert M. Pirsig
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This quote is taken from a book that was published in 1983. The book is titled "The Elements of Statistical Thinking" by William S. Cleveland. It is a very popular statistical textbook. It is used not only by business students, but by mathematicians, political scientists, psychologists, historians, and others interested in the application of statistics to their fields.

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