Samuel Wilson Quotes

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.

The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data.

A lot of science doesn't require big "ns" but if you're trying to understand something about human health and you're looking at interventions that are not going to be either killing you or making you live forever - they're going to have some tweaking on the outcome - you need big numbers or you don't have enough power.

The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power.

There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

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.

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.

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

All of the studies we do in my group are quantified.

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it out to a few dozen people we knew.

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.

The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data, the more useful his findings will be.

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

Genes are thought to contribute a certain amount to the cause of autism but it's not 100 per cent. It might be about 60 per cent genetic. So there are going to be environmental factors that mediate the impact of autism.