At times I've used all three, but I'm a medievalist at heart.

Couldn't agree more. Grieve's 1st Law of Influential Statisticians: design, design, design = D to the power 3.

doi.org/10.1002/pst.5

I'm convinced the solution is to train more statisticians and include them as team members. Had this discussion with a UK MRC toxicologist 20 years ago who wanted more statistical support to prevent the copying from subject matter journals of incorrect, out-of-date methods.

From the New York Times.

Used to make these at University in the early 70s. Delicious.

Fieller's theorem by Edgar Fieller.
Should it be pronounced F - ee- ller's theorem or F - eye- ller's. I know how his son Nick, statistician at Sheffield University, pronounced it.

I remember seeing "Barefoot in the Park" at boarding school, and skipping out of school on a Satrurday night to go and see Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid with these guys in 1968, it's me on the left, in white jumper.

I checked my own papers to make sure I haven't committed this sin. I haven't yet. I have used the phrase "seminal paper" three times in describing Armitage, McPherson and Rowe's paper on multiple sequential testing, Ross Prentice's on surrogate endpoints and Harold Wikensky's on professionization.

I am disappointed. When I lived in Köln, Turkish pastries were one of my guilty pleasures.

I would have been able to make a lot of tarte tatins with them.

I'm with you.

It sounds like the modern equivalent of, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." The modern version being, "Those who can, research. Those who can't, meta-science."

Me sat next to the author (Douglas Adams) in the dormitory at boarding school in 1967.

...and not because the techniques are appreciated to be scientifically important"

Sir David Cox

"One does feel that statistical techniques both of design and analysis are sometimes adopted rather as rituals designed to assuage the last holders of absolute power (editors of journals) and perhaps also regulatory authorities, ....

Or the other way around.

I suspect there were similar studies in the 70s looking at what calculators did to students' brains.

I used that train frequently when I worked in Köln and the kids were still living in the UK. Missed the connection on a number of occasions and became a regular in the Pullman Brussels Midi.