The Lady Tasting Tea

The Lady Tasting Tea

"The Lady Tasting Tea" (ISBN 0-8050-7134-2) is a book by David Salsburg about the history of modern statistics and the role it played in the development of science and industry.

Quoted from the publisher :

:At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a lady states that tea poured into milk tastes differently than that of milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the scientific minds of the group. But one guest, by the name Ronald Aylmer Fisher, proposes to scientifically test the lady's hypothesis. There was no better person to conduct such a test, for Fisher had brought to the field of statistics an emphasis on controlling the methods for obtaining data and the importance of interpretation. He knew that how the data was gathered and applied was as important as the data themselves.

:In "The Lady Tasting Tea", readers will encounter not only R.A. Fisher's theories (and their repercussions), but the ideas of dozens of men and women whose revolutionary work affects our everyday lives. Salsburg traces the rise and fall of Karl Pearson's theories, explores W. Edwards Deming's statistical methods of quality control (which rebuilt postwar Japan's economy), and relates the story of Stella Cunliffe's early work on the capacity of small beer casks at the Guinness brewing factory. The Lady Tasting Tea is not a book of dry facts and figures, but the history of great individuals who dared to look at the world in a new way.

External links

* [http://www.holtzbrinckpublishers.com/academic/book/BookDisplay.asp?BookKey=550446 Publisher's web page]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Tea house — Tearoom redirects here. For other uses, see Tearoom (disambiguation). A tea house or tearoom is a venue centered on drinking tea. Its function varies widely depending on the culture, and some cultures have a variety of distinct tea centered… …   Wikipedia

  • Suppressed research in the Soviet Union — Research in the Soviet Union in science and humanities was placed from the very beginning under a strict ideological scrutiny. All research had to be founded on the philosophical base of dialectical materialism. All humanities and social sciences …   Wikipedia

  • Pu-erh tea — Pu erh, Pu er tea, Puer tea or Bolay tea is a type of tea made from a large leaf variety of the tea plant Camellia sinensis and named after Pu er county near Simao, Yunnan, China. Pu erh tea can be purchased as either raw/green (sheng) or… …   Wikipedia

  • Statistical hypothesis testing — This article is about frequentist hypothesis testing which is taught in introductory statistics. For Bayesian hypothesis testing, see Bayesian inference. A statistical hypothesis test is a method of making decisions using data, whether from a… …   Wikipedia

  • David Salsburg — David S. Salsburg gained fame as the author of The Lady Tasting Tea, subtitled How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century. He is a retired pharmaceutical company statistician (having been a senior research fellow at Pfizer s… …   Wikipedia

  • List of King of the Hill episodes — This is a list of episodes of the Fox animated television series King of the Hill. The series was originally broadcast from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010. Contents 1 Seasons 2 Episodes 2.1 Season 1: 1997 …   Wikipedia

  • W. Edwards Deming — Born October 14, 1900(1900 10 14) Sioux City, Iowa, USA …   Wikipedia

  • Andrey Kolmogorov — Infobox Scientist name = Andrey Kolmogorov birth date = birth date|1903|4|25 birth place = Tambov, Imperial Russia nationality = Russian death date = death date and age|1987|10|20|1903|4|25 death place = Moscow, USSR field = Mathematician work… …   Wikipedia

  • Ronald Fisher — R. A. Fisher Born 17 February 1890(1890 02 17) East Finchley, London …   Wikipedia

  • List of mathematics articles (T) — NOTOC T T duality T group T group (mathematics) T integration T norm T norm fuzzy logics T schema T square (fractal) T symmetry T table T theory T.C. Mits T1 space Table of bases Table of Clebsch Gordan coefficients Table of divisors Table of Lie …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”