Editing Ronald Fisher (section)

==Personal life and beliefs==
[[File:Ronald Fisher with his sons.png|thumb|Ronald Fisher with his sons]]

Fisher married Eileen Guinness, with whom he had two sons and six daughters.<ref name=box/>
His marriage disintegrated during [[World War II]], and his older son George, an [[aviator]], was killed in combat.<ref>Box, ''R. A. Fisher'', p. 396</ref> His daughter Joan, who wrote a biography of her father, married the statistician [[George E. P. Box]].<ref>Box, Joan Fisher (1978) ''R. A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist'' [https://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Extras/Fisher_Life.html Preface], {{ISBN|0-471-09300-9}}</ref>

According to Yates and Mather, "His large family, in particular, reared in conditions of great financial stringency, was a personal expression of his genetic and evolutionary convictions."<ref name="frs"/> Fisher was noted for being loyal, and was seen as a patriot, a member of the [[Church of England]], politically [[conservative]], as well as a scientific rationalist. He developed a reputation for carelessness in his dress and was the archetype of the absent-minded professor. [[H. Allen Orr]] describes him in the ''Boston Review'' as a "deeply devout [[Anglican]] who, between founding modern statistics and population genetics, penned articles for church magazines".<ref>[https://bostonreview.net/BR24.5/orr.html Gould on God: Can religion and science be happily reconciled?] bostonreview.net</ref> In a 1955 broadcast on Science and Christianity,<ref name="frs"/> he said:

{{blockquote|The custom of making abstract dogmatic assertions is not, certainly, derived from the teaching of [[Jesus]], but has been a widespread weakness among religious teachers in subsequent centuries. I do not think that the word for the Christian virtue of faith should be prostituted to mean the credulous acceptance of all such piously intended assertions. Much self-deception in the young believer is needed to convince himself that he knows that of which in reality he knows himself to be ignorant. That surely is hypocrisy, against which we have been most conspicuously warned.}}

Fisher was involved with the [[Society for Psychical Research]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carter |first1=Chris |title=Science and the Afterlife Experience: Evidence for the Immortality of Consciousness |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVsoDwAAQBAJ |publisher=Simon and Schuster |date=2012 |isbn=978-1594774997 }}{{page needed|date=November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=(Research with Ronald Fisher) |journal=Journal of the Society for Psychical Research |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwR-AAAAMAAJ |year=1967 |publisher=Society for Psychical Research |volume=44 |issue=738 |page=392 |quote=The targets (one-figure numbers and letters of the alphabet) were pasted on the backs of visiting cards, which were put into random order either by shuffling or by the use of random number tables loaned us by Professor Sir Ronald Fisher.}}</ref>