To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
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