John Tukey
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"John Wilder Tukey" Foreign Member of the Royal Society/ForMemRS was an American mathematician best known for development of the Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm/FFT algorithm and box plot. The Tukey's range test/Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey's test of additivity/Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name.

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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.