 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry - 1936 - 1544 páginas
...the world, that our exports had declined to ridiculously small proportions, that the consumption of American cotton everywhere in the world was falling...the statistics, properly interpreted, did not bear out the contention that we were in any danger of losing our place in cotton production or in the use... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry - 1936 - 714 páginas
...minds of spinners in this countrv and abroad, and there was a practically universal disposition on tiie part of everybody connected with the trade to buy...the statistics, properly interpreted, did not bear out the contention that we were in any danger of losing our place in cotton production or in the use... | |
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Now, there is an old saying that there are three kinds of lies — lies, damned lies, and statistics. 
