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1917 – 2012Britain
Stella Cunliffe
Honest interpretation: the numbers say what they say, no more, no less. The dice has no memory.
A short story
A British statistician who spent her early career doing quality control at the Guinness brewery (the same brewery where W.S. Gosset, half a century earlier, had invented the t-distribution). She later moved into social-research statistics, where she became known for challenging sloppy statistical reasoning wherever she found it. In 1975 she became the first woman to lead the Royal Statistical Society. Her career was a long, calm insistence that numbers should be interpreted honestly.
In their own words
It is a curious thing about random samples: people will accept all sorts of conclusions from them, and yet refuse to accept that they themselves are random.
Paraphrased: from Stella Cunliffe's writings and lectures on statistical reasoning, c. 1970s–1980s.
The lab their idea turned into
Cast Lab
How likely is this? Count the outcomes; cast the die; watch them converge.
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