![rw-book-cover](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97964736-5956-4619-9073-6875cd9a702f_1200x470.png) ## Metadata - Authors: [[darren-dahly|Darren Dahly]] [[phd|Phd]] - Full Title:: Everybody's Backyard - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[company-culture|Company Culture]], [[Data culture|Data culture]], - URL:: https://statsepi.substack.com/p/everybodys-backyard?r=74c8x&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true - Read date:: [[2024-12-23]] ## Highlights > [John Tukey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tukey) said that [the best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard](https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~brill/Papers/copssbrill.pdf). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jfs0yf3jdd6h88gd9y34rf6s)) And it happens the same in [[Hypothesis testing|Hypothesis Testing]] in companies. > we understand and accept that failure is the norm, [exactly as it should be on the cutting edge of scientific discovery](https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-need-more-failure-talk/). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jfs1081k9mz3rg3yrsb2rprh))