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Figures may not lie, but statistics compiled unscientifically and analyzed incompetently are almost sure to be misleading, and when this condition is unnecessarily chronic the so-called statisticians may be called liars.

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Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Born: April 25, 1879
Died: December 28, 1964 (aged 85)
Bio: Edwin Bidwell Wilson was an American mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protégé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson.
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  1. Aeronautics (1920)

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