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Tea Test Tempest

The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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The Tea Test - A Simple Test to Design Better Experiments

In the 19 twenties, there was no standard way to design a scientific experiment. People rarely had controls, and most scientists analyzed data pretty crudely. Fisher's tea test helped him isolate the key points of good experimental design and good statistical analysis.

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