The joke goes, 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics'. But it leads to a serious point that although numbers and data don’t lie, people can easily misuse them to do so. — 123rf.com
A mathematician, an engineer and a statistician walk into a bar. The bartender hands them a piece of paper with some writing on it and says, “Hey, can one of you solve this problem for me?”
The mathematician puzzles over it for a while and then says, “Well, I can tell you a solution exists but I can’t calculate the precise answer”.
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