Matthew,
Wonderful anecdote! The perfect antidote to the toxic comments of
anti-scientific know-it-alls who dismiss anything that does not fit
their "facts" or theories or prejudices. Bravo!
JBB
On Friday, Oct 24, 2003, at 22:57 Asia/Tokyo, Matthew McCann PE wrote:
This list is full of nuggets and
gems of potentially useful facts!
One tidbit I really liked
was the fact that monatomic
silver ions has the metallic
aftertaste, but polyatomic
silver particulate has no
taste.
This reminded me so much
of Sir Ronald Fisher's
famous anecdote of
the lady at a tea party
who claimed she
could taste the
difference between
milk added to tea, and
tea added to milk.
Everybody at the tea
party jeered at her
claim, except
Sir Ronald. He
invented the seminal
exact 2x2 contingency
table test just to test
her hypothesis.
Some historians of
science say this
episode at a tea party
was the birth of
modern exact, small-
sample statistics!
Matthew
