John Tukey Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by John Tukey:

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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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
~John Tukey


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