gill1109 wrote:
You seem not to realise,..., that among the supervisors of my supervisors of my supervisors were ... de Vries, Korteweg, van der Waals ... Leibniz, Calvin. That is quite a lot of accumulated wisdom which I inherited. I went to the same college as Sir R. A. Fisher and John Venn. Was taught by Stephen Hawking, among other physicists. By John H Conway, among other mathematicians. By the last living collaborators and direct followers of R A Fisher (A.W. Edwards). By Sir David Kendal and Sir Peter Whittle. Incidentally, my mother was one of Alan Turing's computers at one of the "out-stations" of Bletchley Park. My father was an experimental physicist.
Gill, thanks for this information. It now explains your silly (a good Bell word) approach to Watson's essay. (Have a look at your references to all sorts of totally irrelevant statistical terms -- and other avoidance techniques.)
I'm more fortunate, my parents were primitive carpenters. So I tend nail everything; nonsense especially.
Thus confirming your unique theory of inherited wisdom; but Oh what a difference Jeffreys' DNA would have made!
Regards,
Xray