Robert Hooke (mathematician) Quote

Do remember that your personal experience is merely a hodgepodge of statistics, consisting of those cases that you happen to remember. Because these are necessarily small in number and because your memory may be biased toward one result or another, your experience may be far less dependable than a good set of statistics.


Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown (1972) by J.M. Tanur, Statistics, Sports, and Some Other Things, p. 195


Do remember that your personal experience is merely a hodgepodge of statistics, consisting of those cases that you happen to remember. Because these...

Do remember that your personal experience is merely a hodgepodge of statistics, consisting of those cases that you happen to remember. Because these...

Do remember that your personal experience is merely a hodgepodge of statistics, consisting of those cases that you happen to remember. Because these...

Do remember that your personal experience is merely a hodgepodge of statistics, consisting of those cases that you happen to remember. Because these...