On Thursday, June 3, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
Ed Felien wrote:
Mr. Griffith, I'm sure you remember Mark Twain's comment, "There are lies,
damn lies and statistics." You are correct that the National Cancer
Institute (and the Environmental Protection Agency) say that there are 3000
deaths of non-smokers each year from second hand smoke.
From Publishers Weekly:
Who really said, "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics" Mark Twain or Benjamin Disraeli? Disraeli: (whom Twain credits for his use of the remark in his autobiography). The quote's misattribution is similar to the twisted course statistics often take as they "mutate" into bar-chart monsters with slim if any relation to the original numbers...
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