Thursday, August 24, 2023

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics

--- popularized by Mark Twain (cf. Wikipedia)

From Twain's Chapters from My Autobiography, published in the North American Review in 1907 (per Wikipedia)

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'