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Quote by John Tukey

“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.”

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John Tukey was an outstanding statistician, born on June 16, 1915, and passed away on July 26, 2000. He made significant contributions to the field of statistics, particularly in exploratory data analysis, non-parametric statistics, and computer science. more

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