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PROF. R. A. FISHER and Dr. Barbacki have recently published a paper in the Annals of Eugenics entitled ” A Test of the Supposed Precision of Systematic Arrangements”1. There is a good deal in the paper with which I am not in agreement and with which I hope to deal elsewhere, but a letter from a friend of mine in Australia, who had heard at second-hand that Fisher's ” results showed not only that the half-drill strip failed to give a valid estimate of error but was less accurate”, shows that it would be better not to let such rumours get a start, for they are quite unfounded.
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Barbacki and Fisher, ” A Test of the Supposed Precision of Systematic Arrangements”. Annals of Eugenics, 7, Part 2 (1936).
Beaven, ” Trials of New Varieties of Cereals”, J. Min. Agric., 29, Nos. 4 and 5 (1922).
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” Student”, ” Yield Trials”. Baillère 's ” Encyc. Sci. Agric.”, vol. 2 (1931).
” Student”, ” Co-operation in Large Scale Experiments”. J. Roy. Stat. Soc., Supplement (1936).
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The Half-Drill Strip System Agricultural Experiments. Nature 138, 971–972 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138971b0
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