Quotulatiousness

June 21, 2018

QotD: Statistics

Filed under: Economics, Humour, Quotations — Tags: — Nicholas @ 01:00

If the devil is in the details, and if the details can be hidden from view by lumping them all into various aggregate statistics, then among the biggest fans of the uncritical use of aggregate statistics will be the devil.

Don Boudreaux, “Devilish”, Café Hayek, 2016-08-29.

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