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I seem to have unwittingly stirred up a hornets' nest here, so let me have one more say and leave it. Firstly, congratulations to Renaud Launcelot, who seems to have a better feel for wryness and irony in English than some of my native speaker colleagues. Of course R A Fisher is a seminal writer, indeed close to the founder of modern statistics and every aspiring statistician should read what he had to say _very_ carefully, but don't expect an easy ride. He had a deceptively simpl...