In his book Flaw of Averages, Sam Savage describes the IOT test of statistical significance.
Joe Berkson, a statistician at the Mayo Clinic, developed his own criterion, which he termed the IOT Test, or Inter Ocular Trauma Test, requiring a graph that hit you between the eyes.
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EastwoodDC 08.31.09 at 15:24
We have a similar sounding but little used method* called “The Squinty Eye Test” (1) I might have to check out that book and see if it’s related.
* very very little used.
Alan 02.24.11 at 13:50
I have heard it called the inter-occular stress test.