Radical Statistics
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Figure 4: Ground rules
  • Common sense: keep a sense of proportion; feel free to break the rules if they get ridiculous
  • Modest bourgeois standards of comfort and convenience
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  • Dual systems where practical, across the threshold of bourgeois standards
  • Generalisable results are the most useful yield
  • Specialise
  • Design for regular monitoring
  • No perfectionism: Quit While You're Ahead
  • Environmental best practice within the limits of the budget
  • Child-friendly
  • Respect the history and spirit of the site
  • Consider house and garden jointly
  • All-purpose garden: test-bed, demonstration, recreation, wildlife, waste-processing
  • No skips, no bonfires