[WikiEN-l] Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Jay Litwyn
brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Mon Aug 10 12:26:05 UTC 2009
"Durova" <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> quoted Samuel Clemens in message
news:a01006d90904151712x2e95f41r9c2dcf17a4dcbcef at mail.gmail.com...
> "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics". -
> Mark
> Twain
In book called "They never said it!", that is identified as apocryphal,
which means that he did not write it (maybe I can find a finer criterion
printed in the book). It is a lot of fun to say it, though, so if he said it
once, then he probably said it a few times. Einstein said something like it
on a sign that hung at his door:
"
Not everything that can be counted counts.
Not everything that counts can be counted.
"
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