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‘Learning from evidence turns not on appraising or probabilifying large-scale theories but on piecemeal tasks of data analysis: estimating backgrounds, modelling data, and discriminating signals from noise. Statistical inference is not radically different from, but is illuminated by, sexy science [eg physics], which increasingly depends on it.’

‘When Popper wrote me “I regret not studying statistics”, my thought was “not as much as I do.”’