Numbers are tools, not rules

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Hi All,

I thought this might be relevant to doctors and their fetish for blood test

results and reference ranges.

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- Statistical Axioms:

o Numbers are tools, not rules.

o Numbers are symbols for things; the number and the thing are not the same.

o Skill in manipulating numbers is a talent, not evidence of divine guidance.

o Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a

private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from

non-practitioners.

o The product of an arithmetical computation is the answer to an equation; it is

not the solution to a problem.