Opinion
True lies
Benjamin Disraeli once said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” Well, actually, it seems that is a lie.
31 January 2004
Benjamin Disraeli once said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” Well, actually, it seems that is a lie.
In his Autobiography, published posthumously in 1924, Mark Twain wrote: “The remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics`.”
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