Charles Babbage Quotes About Trimming

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  • Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them onto those which are too small; a species of 'equitable adjustment,' as a radical would term it, which cannot be admitted in science.

    Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.124, Cambridge University Press
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Charles Babbage

  • Born: December 26, 1791
  • Died: October 18, 1871
  • Occupation: Mathematician