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  • I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.

    Norbert Wiener (1961). “Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”, p.25, MIT Press