Gosset had been hired owing to Claude Guinness's policy of recruiting the best graduates from Oxford and Cambridge to apply biochemistry and statistics to Guinness's industrial processes. Gosset devised the "t"-test as an economical way to monitor the quality of stout. The "t"-test work was submitted to and accepted in the journal "Biometrika" and published in 1908. Company policy at Guinness forbade its chemists from publishing their findings, so Gosset published his statistical work under the pseudonym "Student" (see Student's "t"-distribution for a detailed history of this pseudonym, which is not to be confused with the literal term "student").