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John Tukey Quotes

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

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.

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