Mark Twain, “There are lies, damned lies and Statistics.”
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Mark Twain attributed the quote to Benjamin Disraeli
“I was deducing from the above that I have been slowing down steadily in these thirty-six years, but I perceive that my statistics have a defect: three thousand words in the spring of 1868, when I was working seven or eight or nine hours at a sitting, has little or no advantage over the sitting of to-day, covering half the time and producing half the output. Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force:
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Nobody knows for sure, but possible authors are investigated at this website ~
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm