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==Quotation==
==Quotation==
<blockquote>One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson</blockquote>
<blockquote>One more fagot of these adamantine bandages, is, the new science of Statistics. It is a rule, that the most casual and extraordinary events -- if the basis of population is broad enough -- become matter of fixed calculation. It would not be safe to say when a captain like Bonaparte, a singer like Jenny Lind, or a navigator like Bowditch, would be born in Boston: but, on a population of twenty or two hundred millions, something like accuracy may be had. Fate by Ralph Waldo Emerson</blockquote>


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Revision as of 20:21, 20 October 2005

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Quotation

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages, is, the new science of Statistics. It is a rule, that the most casual and extraordinary events -- if the basis of population is broad enough -- become matter of fixed calculation. It would not be safe to say when a captain like Bonaparte, a singer like Jenny Lind, or a navigator like Bowditch, would be born in Boston: but, on a population of twenty or two hundred millions, something like accuracy may be had. Fate by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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