Not quite. Although David Salsburg's The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century isn't exactly a page turner, the author deserves a lot of credit for ...

THE LADY TASTING TEA: HOW STATISTICS REVOLUTIONIZED SCIENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (BOOK REVIEW) Florence Nightingale once wrote that, "To understand God's thoughts, we must study statistics ...

The now famous "Lady Tasting Tea" experiment is said to be based on a true story when a woman, thought to be Dr. Muriel Bristol, made the claim that she was able to tell whether the milk or tea was ...

In the case of the “lady tasting the tea,” Fisher believed that she could not tell the difference between milk being added before the tea or after the tea. Bristol was going to have to ...

The Lady Tasting Tea by David Salsburg, W. H. Freeman, $23.95, ISBN Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special ...

The lady of the title's claim—that she could detect a difference between milk-into-tea vs. tea-into-milk infusions—sets up the social history of a theory that has changed the culture of ...

David Salsburg's book, The Lady Tasting Tea, is an entertaining series of vignettes about the individuals who devised these methods and the questions they asked. The title is derived from R.A ...