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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
"Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise."
John Tukey, statistician
(16th June 1915-2000)
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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 W. Tukey, 1915 – 2000
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem
John Tukey
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
John Tukey