The Facts:
"You told me that you had spoken to the editor of Statistical Science and had
recommended to him that the paper submitted by Rips et al to that journal be published, with
the proviso that a discussion by an independent discussant also be included."
-- letter from Prof. Aumann to Prof. Diaconis dated August 28, 1992
"Although the referees thought carefully about possible sources of error in the work, no
one tried to reanalyze the data carefully and independently to try to uncover the presumed
flaw in the logic
The authors' work did not go far enough to make me seriously think, even for a
moment, that their results were anything other than coincidental, and likely due to a
subtle flaw in their methodology."
-- Robert Kass, on his web site
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