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IN a letter to NATURE of August 24, Prof. Karl Pearson states: ” From my point of view, the tests are used to ascertain whether a reasonable graduation curve has been achieved, not to assert whether one or another hypothesis is true or false.”
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FISHER, K. Statistical Tests. Nature 136, 474 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136474b0
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I think the name of the author is R.A. Fisher here, as was clearly shown in the PDF.