http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/02/20/john-tukey-and-aristotle/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:10:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/02/20/john-tukey-and-aristotle/comment-page-1/#comment-63712 Helena Lynch Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:59:57 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1578#comment-63712 I was looking for a Tukey quote which from memory is along the lines of ... "... that grotesque phenonomen that is mathematical statistics... ". Does that ring any bells? Would anyone know where I could find that? I was looking for a Tukey quote which from memory is along the lines of … “… that grotesque phenonomen that is mathematical statistics… “. Does that ring any bells? Would anyone know where I could find that?

]]> http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/02/20/john-tukey-and-aristotle/comment-page-1/#comment-13662 doug rivers Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:55:10 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1578#comment-13662 Tukey is often quoted as saying that it's "better to be approximately right than exactly wrong." Tukey is often quoted as saying that it’s “better to be approximately right than exactly wrong.”

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