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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America, by Michael Wheeler (W. W. Norton & Co. 1976; Dell paperback 1978). Quotes, Damned Quotes ..... some of them to do with statistics (1985), by John Bibby – an attempt to untangle the history of this quotation.
At our cultural moment of distrust, it sounds as if the phrase popularized by Mark Twain more than a century ago remains as accurate today: “Lies, damned lies and statistics.”
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."-- Popularized by Mark Twain Recent reports have called Clean Energy Fuels' decision to invest heavily in liquefied natural gas ...
Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics may refer to: "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics" (The West Wing), a first-season episode of the TV series The West Wing; Lies, damned lies, and statistics, a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers
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The American Statistician. 18 (5): 15–17 to Lies, damned lies, and statistics. In October 2022 you added the quote on the first page of Wright's article as well as an English translation to François Magendie ; the JSTOR link added in January 2023 leads to Unkind Cuts at Statisticians .
In the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard textbook introduction to the subject of statistics for many college students. It has become one of the best-selling statistics books in history, with over one and a half million copies sold in the English-language edition. [1] It has also been widely translated.
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