R. A. Fisher reexamined the data in a 1936 paper and concluded that there was only a 1-in-2000 chance that agreement with theory would as good as Mendel observed.
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Cool fact about Mendel - although his theory was largely correct, there's good evidence that he (or an assistant) cooked the data, consciously or otherwise, to make it seem even more convincing.https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1418150405507321860 …
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"The data of most, if not all, of the experiments have been falsified so as to agree closely with Mendel's expectations." -- R. A. Fisher, "Has Mendel's Work Been Rediscovered?" (1936)
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If you’re not cooking data are you really even trying to graduate? There are a lot of awards to be won and papers to be published.
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