[WikiEN-l] Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Surreptitiousness
surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 11 11:20:04 UTC 2009
Jay Litwyn wrote:
> "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).
Have just turned up an instance from 1892, in the */Birmingham Daily
Post, /*so I'll add that to the article.*/
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