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Comment by slibhb

5 months ago

> So I would suggest this pushes the question back yet further, why do we (still?) think he was brilliant?

Because he (mostly single-handedly) invented modern statistics.

Gelman comes down pretty hard on Fisher here but he doesn't question his brilliance.

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