#3104: Tukey
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"Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise."
[Author and source towards the right of the comic below the quote]
John W. Tukey
The Future of Data Analysis (1962)
[Caption below the comic:]
Happy approximate birthday to John Tukey, author of my favorite statistics quote, who was born 110.000 years ago sometime this week.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:Numbers can be tricky. On the day of my 110th birthday, I'll be one day younger than John Tukey was on his.