 | American Statistical Association - Computer network resources - 1912 - 986 pages
...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... | |
 | Mineral industries - 1907 - 452 pages
...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 - Computer network resources - 1912 - 906 pages
...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 - Communism - 1919 - 1286 pages
...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.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1919 - 1282 pages
...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.... | |
 | 1922 - 860 pages
...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... | |
 | High schools - 1926 - 408 pages
...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 - Cotton - 1936 - 1550 pages
...bitter articles about the folly of the whole proceeding of the Government in connection with cotton. American cotton everywhere in the world was falling...the statistics, properly interpreted, did not bear put the contention that we were in any danger of losing our place in cotton production or in.the use... | |
 | Alabama State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1927 - 730 pages
...I am often inclined to deem wise the statement of Walter Gagehot, the celebrated English economist, that there are three kinds of lies — lies, damned lies and statistics. (Laughter.) And in considering these statistics, we must remember that it is altogether probable that... | |
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Someone once said that there are three kinds of lies: "lies, damned lies, and statistics. 
