While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he b…

Arthur Conan Doyle
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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 be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. ✨ Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Watson in The Sign of Four (1890).
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