A Quote by Thomas Sowell
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
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It is well documented that the same text, indexed by several indexers, will result in as many slightly or even substantially different indexes, and even the same indexer will produce varying indexes for the same text at different times.
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