Showing posts with label individuals vary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label individuals vary. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

While the individual man is …

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. 

The Sign of the four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle