“In India, there's lack of appreciation of the need to cross-examine data, the responsibility of a statistician.”

— Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

In Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html, <br class="br">Quote

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Indian scientist 1893–1972

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“In the absence of social awareness and appreciation of the scientiﬁc objectivity among sufficiently large number of civil servants or political leaders, the need of validity has not yet been accepted in the ofﬁcial tatistical system in India. Ofcial statistics in India is treated as an integral part of the dministrative system which is regulated by the principle of authority. Approval of statistical estimates at a high level of authority is accepted as a bstitnte for validity in many ases there is continuing opposition to independent cross-hccks for the validity of the data. Ofﬁcials have the feeling that two independent estimates, which might differ would be confusing and, in fact unthinkable; therefore independent cross-checks in statistics should be eliminated.”

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972) Indian scientist

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“One does not cross-examine a saint.”

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“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.”

Ronald Fisher (1890–1962) English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist

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Jani Allan (1952) South African columnist and broadcaster

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Julie Taymor (1952) American film and theatre director

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