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"33⅓% of the mice used in the experiment were cured by the test drug; 33⅓% of the test population were unaffected by the drug and remained in a moribund condition; the third mouse got away."

 
 --ERWIN NETER

From "How to Write a Scientific Paper" by Robert A. Day, ASM News, vol. 41, no. 7, pp 486-494, July 1975. Reprinted by permission of publisher and author. Also appears in How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper 4th edition by Robert A. Day, copyright 1994 by Oryx Press.

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