When syllogisms fail
May 22, 2007 on 10:49 am | In Philosophy, Psychology |In my statistics book (Discovering Statistcs with SPSS) by Andy Field, Andy tries to demonstrate logic, specifically the rejection of the null hypothesis, with the help of a syllogism:
If a man has no arms he can’t play guitar.
This man plays the guitar.
Therefore, this man has arms.
Unfortunately, statistics is all about likelihoods. 
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