Fuente: Citado en D. Salzburg. The Lady Tasting Tea: How statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century, ed. Henry Holt & co., New York, 2001, p. 231.
Obras
Exploratory Data Analysis
John W. TukeyJohn W. Tukey Frases y Citas
Original: «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 body of data».
Fuente: Machine Learning and Data Science: An Introduction to Statistical Learning Methods with R. Autor Daniel D. Gutierrez. Editorial Technics Publications, 2015. ISBN 9781634620987. https://books.google.es/books?id=3DPcCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=9781634620987&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDqPfq8PXgAhV-A2MBHRggCicQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20combination%20of%20some%20data%20and%20an%20aching%20desire%20for%20an%20answer&f=false
Fuente: Exploratory Data Analysis, 1977.
John W. Tukey: Frases en inglés
The future of data analysis. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 33 (1), (1962), page 13.
Variante: "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.
Sunset salvo. The American Statistician 40 (1). Online at http://www.jstor.org/pss/2683137
The Technical Tools of Statistics. The American Statistician 34 (1). Online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2682374