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saxikath ([personal profile] saxikath) wrote2002-05-16 12:48 pm
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Advice to live by.

"Don't use the number of new-born zebras in Kenya to predict the life of truck tires on the Pennsylvania Turnpike." -- from Using Data, by Peter G. Bryant.

I love my dad. Even his statistics textbook has a sense of humor.

[identity profile] bookishfellow.livejournal.com 2002-05-17 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
Well of course not...everyone knows the cause/effect relationship runs the other way.

Duh!