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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 body of data.

John Tukey
Data, Desire, Body
"Sunset Salvo" by John Tukey in The American Statistician, Volume 40, No. 1 (pp. 72-76), www.jstor.org. February 1986.
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.