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Despite the fundamental importance and frequent necessity of statistical reasoning, there may nonetheless have been a tendency among biologists to distrust or deprecate results which are not qualitatively apparent.

One anecdote describes Thomas Hunt Morgan banning the Friden calculator from his department at Caltech, saying " Well, I am like a guy who is prospecting for gold along the banks of the Sacramento River in 1849.

With a little intelligence, I can reach down and pick up big nuggets of gold.

And as long as I can do that, I'm not going to let any people in my department waste scarce resources in placer mining.

" Educators are now adjusting their curricula to focus on more quantitative concepts and tools.