An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong. - John Tukey
Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.
- John Tukey
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. - John Tukey
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my f… - John Tukey
Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my f…
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to t… - John Tukey
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to t…
There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart. - John Tukey
There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.
All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the e… - John Tukey
All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the e…
In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, el… - John Tukey
In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, el…
To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain. - John Tukey
To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.
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