Could be Disraeli, but I always thought it was Mark Twain. "Lies, damn lies
and statistics" Having more than a smattering of probability and
statistics, I am fully aware one can bend numbers to tell any story or bend
any truth you care to. But, I, as did Denton and others, took the original
posting as a toungue in cheek bit of fun, not as an insult.
John P
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there is no "never" - just long periods of "not yet".
Chris Barker <cmib@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>It's a figure of speech from a long time back and I don't think that the
>word "lies"should be taken too seriously.
>
>I think that it was Disraeli or someone from that era who described
>statistics so.
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