After a short examination of the problem of training in industry with the aim of integrating the knowledge of young scientists and technical people, and of overcoming the obsolescence of personnel charged with technical work, this paper stresses the importance of the statistical treatment of experimental data. The paper describes the programme of a course on this subject, developed through the extensive use of a time‐sharing digital computer with a terminal in the classroom: the computer being programmed to simulate sources of experimental results and to verify the essential theorems of statistics.