The 'Null'

Anybody who knows the basics of hypothesis testing would understand what I mean when I talk of a certain charm in null hypothesis. Its beauty lies in the fact that there is a certain air of finality in its rejection - the null needs to be rejected to prove anything at all. On the contrary, a failure to reject is just that - a failure to reject and that's it.

Saurav Chandidas Ganguly is like this insane, eccentric statistician who is kinda possessed with his sole objective in life - to reject the null hypothesis. It is absolutely no coincidence that the null was almost always stacked against him. Every single time, time after time.

[This was actually an incomplete post from November last year - I just had to complete this because it was about the Prince of Kolkata :-)]