Chi-square and Mendel's experiments: where's the bias?

Abstract excerpt

Mendel has been accused of "cooking" his data to meet a particular hypothesis. The earliest time he could have formulated an hypothesis in the course of his experiments was at the end of the second year of experiments 1 and 2. If he knew what to expect as the result of his first two pea-seed experiments, one might expect the chi-square values of subsequent experiments to exhibit a trend toward smaller values....

Topics

• Genotype
• Hybridization, Genetic
• Models, Genetic
• Phenotype
• Plants