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11th November 2003

The Dispassionate Statistician

“…Tufte has invoked the principles of Evelyn Wood speed-reading in his reductivist ad absurdum take on the discipline of Graphic Design. He is a statistician by training, a designer by marriage, and a sociologist by default — giving names to stuff we already know, and getting paid handsomely for it along the way…”

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Filed in: Information graphics

11th November 2003

The Dispassionate Statistician

“…Tufte has invoked the principles of Evelyn Wood speed-reading in his reductivist ad absurdum take on the discipline of Graphic Design. He is a statistician by training, a designer by marriage, and a sociologist by default — giving names to stuff we already know, and getting paid handsomely for it along the way…”

Comments are closed.