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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

~John Tukey

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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

~John Tukey

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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

~John Tukey

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 16th, 1915

Died: July 26th, 2000

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