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If the assumptions are wrong, the conclusions aren't likely to be very good. (This principle refers to the late radio comedian Robert Burns and his method for weighing hogs. Burns got a perfectly symmetrical plank and balanced it across a sawhorse. He would then put the hog on one end of the plank and begin piling rocks on the other end until the plank was again perfectly balanced across the sawhorse. At this point he would carefully guess the weight of the rocks.)
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