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Lies, d*** lies, and statistics

3 January 2011 · by  Fr. Ernesto Leave a Comment

We have all heard the saying about there being, “lies, damn lies, and statistics.” From where does the saying come? No one knows for sure, though it comes from the 19th century. The word statistics did not exist in English until 1787, so the saying cannot come from prior to that. A mathematician from the […]

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