[Mpls] reply to gemgram and griffith

[Laura Waterman Wittstock]

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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