ABSTRACT
I first met Ralph Rosnow in October 1968. I was a new assistant professor, and Ralph spotted me right away. He had 18 or 20 irons in the fire and needed some statistical help on one or two of them.2 After we met, he gave me some data and asked that I analyze them. To aid in this task he provided the epigrammatic advice “Think Fisher, not Pearson.” This became his parting mantra each time we met over the next several months. He never told me exactly what he meant by it, so I was forced to guess.
