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.

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"An approximate answer to the right question is worth a great deal more than a precise answer to the wrong question." "as the renowned statistician John Tukey once reportedly said," according to Super Freakonomics page 224.

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