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Re:Unlearning descriptive statistics by CalChris on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:08PM (#13543849)
Statistics are reductionist!

Well yes, that is their purpose.

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Re:Unlearning descriptive statistics by IndianAstronaut on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @10:18PM (#13547826)
My statistics professor once told us that statistics are a shadow of the truth, not the actual truth itself.
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Re:Unlearning descriptive statistics by matt4077 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:00AM (#13549896)
What a caveman!
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