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- The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given…
- 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…
- An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
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