Adopting an arbitrary point to separate differences "attributed to chance"from those "not attributed to chance"was first done by scientists working in the field of
A) psychology
B) sociology
C) astronomy
D) agriculture.

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This approach was first adopted by scientists working in the field of agriculture, specifically by R.A. Fisher and his colleagues at the Rothamsted Experimental Station in England. They developed statistical methods to analyze the results of agricultural experiments, introducing the concept of statistical significance to distinguish between results that could be attributed to chance and those that could not.

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