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Comment author: [deleted] 06 February 2014 12:04:39PM 1 point [-]

Agreed! Perhaps Fisher's test was used because it can deal with small expected values in cells of contingency tables (where chi-square is flawed) but "small" must still > 0.

Comment author: Creutzer 06 February 2014 08:19:40PM *  2 points [-]

Which just made me think that it would have been hilarious if Dr. Yagami had realised this and continued by saying that because of it, and in order to make the statistical test applicable, he is going to add an amount of random noise.