They are a valuable aid to the interpretation of data, not sausage machines automatically transforming bodies of Numbers into packets of scientific fact.

数值方法只是数据解释的辅助而已，不存在完美的机器自动地把一堆数字转变为一系列科学事实。

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Simple observational numbers absent of a random trials and scientific experimentation are not enough to convince us to change practices honed by years of experience.

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