Someone needed to search old academic papers and textbooks

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I would like to find the first published instance of the erroneous combination of Fisher's p-value based significance testing and Neyman-Pearson error-rate based Hypothesis testing. This happened sometime between 1928 and 1940.

This paper explains the phenomenon I am talking about.
http://ftp.stat.duke.edu/WorkingPapers/03-26.pdf


The paper/book must be published before this earliest reference I have found:
Lindquist, E.F., 1940. Statistical Analysis in Educational Research. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

2 btc reward and you will have made a great contribution to modern science. Extra reward for images of the cover and page in which this occurs.

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Nah it wont be written by Fisher, Neyman, or Pearson. You can agree or disagree with their philosophies but they all knew what they were talking about.

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Thanks for the try.