GHILLYING FOR SCIENCE—ROD OR NET?

Abstract

I suppose the first duty of a hunter's servant is to know what kind of quarry the laird is looking for. In the great field sport of information, I often think that we serve a remarkably inarticulate gathering of lairds. True, he will probably specify fish or fowl, but he leaves you to guess whether he wants a fine trout or a shoal of minnows. The statistical laird (if we may invent so unlikely an abstraction) needs either, of course—and at his own choice; but even so you usually have to be a thought reader before you reach for the rod or the net, as the case may be.

Citation

BATTEN, W.E. (1968), "GHILLYING FOR SCIENCE—ROD OR NET?", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 20 No. 3, pp. 157-161. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050152