 | American Statistical Association - 1912 - 986 páginas
...me : ' The half is not known about China, and the half that is known is not so.' The profane tell us that there are three kinds of lies: 'lies, damned lies, and statistics.' This may serve to show how great is the need which we preachers have of you statisticians. Comptroller... | |
 | 1907 - 452 páginas
...and so he of San Francisco did, but in his own peculiar way, by concurring with Disraeli, who said that "there are three kinds of lies : lies, damned lies, and statistics." But what will mining engineers generally, and graduates of the Royal School of Mines particularly think... | |
 | American Statistical Association - 1912 - 906 páginas
...me : ' The half is not known about China, and the half that is known is not so.' The profane tell us that there are three kinds of lies: 'lies, damned lies, and statistics.' This may serve to show how great is the need which we preachers have of you statisticians. Comptroller... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1919 - 1282 páginas
...1918 Senator OVERMAN. How many do you think the total number killed? Mr. WILLIAMS. You know it is said that there are three kinds of lies — lies, damned lies, and statistics — and I do not dare proffer any exact statistics upon the number that have been killed. Senator OVERMAN.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1919 - 1286 páginas
...1918 Senator OVZRMAX. How manv do vou think the total number killed? Mr. WILLIAMS. You know it is said that there are three kinds of lies — lies, damned lies, and statistics — and I do not dare proffer any exact statistics upon the number that have been killed. Senator OVERMAN.... | |
 | 1955 - 424 páginas
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 | 1922 - 860 páginas
...can prove a lot of things by statistics, but I am not going deeply into statistics. You recollect the old saying that there are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Statistics are useful, but they are very misleading, unless we use them correctly. Nor was there any... | |
 | 1926 - 408 páginas
...must aspire to affect. Mark Twain once quoted with approval this sentence attributed to Disraeli : "There are three kinds of lies, — lies, damned lies, and statistics." I shall not weary you, therefore, with statistics; but I would like to state the results of an inquiry... | |
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Now, there is an old saying that there are three kinds of lies — lies, damned lies, and statistics. 
