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Why randomized controlled trials fail but needn’t: 2. Failure to employ physiological statistics, or the only Review formula a clinician-trialist is ever Synthèse likely to need (or understand!) Dr. Sackett is Director of the Trout Research Education David L. Sackett Centre at Irish Lake, Markdale, Ont. Because statistics has too often been presented as a bag of specialized computational tools, with morbid emphasis on calculation, it is no wonder that This article has been peer reviewed. survivors of such courses regard their statistical tools as instruments of torture [rather] than as diagnostic aids in the art and science of data analysis. CMAJ 2001;165(9):1226-37 — George W. Cobb1 From the underside It was the seventh time I had taken a course in basic biostatistics, and I vowed that this time I was actually going to understand it. The year was 1974, and we were on sabbatical in London. The Beatles had started to beat on each other, Ali beat Frazier, the good guys beat Nixon, Lord Lucan beat his nanny, and I could still beat the odds of getting run over while bicycling between NW3 and St