John Tukey - Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which...

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.

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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.

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