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Anscombe’s Quartet
Part XXX of Storytelling with Tableau by Dr. Alvin Ang
2 min readApr 9, 2025
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- Statistically, do all the numbers look the same to you?
- You might be fooled that all their graphs will look the same (based on their statistics)…
- Anscombe did this to disprove that graphing is useless…
- Because most statisticians prefer to work with numbers rather than charts….
- He proved his point that graphing is needed and you can’t trust your numbers all the time….