Although meaningless in a tribal context, numbers and statistics assume mythic and magical qualities of infallibility in literate societies. (Marshall McLuhan)

Although meaningless in a tribal context, numbers and statistics assume mythic and magical qualities of infallibility in literate societies.

Marshall McLuhan

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