I am trying to collate a list of "interesting facts about statistics to
impress your friends at parties".
Here are a couple:
Karl Pearson and Ronald Fisher used to have an informal agreement to
take their tea breaks at different times, so they didn’t need to run
into each other in the common room.
The first female member of the Royal Statistical Society was Florence
Nightingale. Florence Nightingale was friends with a family called
David. When the Davids had a daughter, they named her Florence
Nightingale David. F. N. David (as she was known) went on to become a
statistician, and worked with Pearson. She wrote a book on the history
of statistics, called Games, Gods and Gambling.
Any more gratefully received. Respond to me and I'll summarise to the
list.
Thanks,
Jeremy
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Jeremy Miles
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Dept of Health Sciences (Area 4), University of York, York, YO10 5DD
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