Minor note, the statistician in question was Abraham Wald: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald Edit: Well, as

Minor note, the statistician in question was Abraham Wald: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald Edit: Well, assuming it happened, as going by other comments here maybe it didn't!