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Ronald Fisher

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Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.
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31 May 1929, in a letter to K.Sisam, Oxford University Press. Printed in Natural Selection, Heredity, and Eugenics, p.20, ed. J.H.Bennett, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.

 
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