John Tukey Quote

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.


Sunset Salvo. The American Statistician, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Feb., 1986), pp. 72-76

Sunset Salvo


The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.