ABSTRACT
Initial remarks about how exacting the experimenter needs to be re-echoing the impression that significance test as conceived by the author is primarily a disciplinary regimen to discourage rash judgments. The statement that it is usual for research workers to adopt a 5 percent significance level in the same context is true only of those who rely on the many rule of thumb manuals expounding R. A. Fisher’s own test prescriptions. Some of Fisher’s ideas took shape in the context of the early developments of the theory of relativity; and he learnt to move with ease and grace in the empyrean of the hypersphere when abstract multidimensional geometry was an uncharted domain to theoretical statisticians of an earlier vintage. The only notably valiant attempt of one of the apostles of the sect to interpret the teaching of the Leader as a system of logic is that of Yates.
