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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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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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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.


— John Tukey


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John Wilder Tukey ForMemRS (/ˈtjuːki/; June 16 1915 – July 26 2000) was an American mathematician best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot.

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