 | United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee - 1950 - 586 pages
...rumors going about town that in some cases rents have been raised "100 and 200 percent." Someone once said that there are three kinds of lies: "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Nothing can be more deceptive than a statistic, especially if it is an unexplained or unevaluated statistic.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency - Housing - 1950 - 714 pages
...rumors going about town that in some cases rents have been raised "100 and 200 percent." Someone once said that there are three kinds of lies: "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Nothing can be more deceptive than a statistic, especially if it is an unexplained or unevaluated statistic.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency - Rent - 1950 - 582 pages
...rumors going about town that in some cases rents have been raised "100 and 200 percent." Someone once said that there are three kinds of lies: "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Nothing can be more deceptive than a statistic, especially if it is an unexplained or unevaluated statistic.... | |
 | Ceylon. Pārlimēntuva. House of Representatives - Sri Lanka - 1956 - 996 pages
...different figures meaning different things. I recall to mind the inimitable Lloyd George's famous dictum that there are three kinds of lies : lies, damned lies and statistics. The hon. Member must be careful. These figures are figures intended to arrive at the same conclusion,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1967 - 1554 pages
...officials have learned this lesson. It will be a sad day if the people come to agree with Mark Twain ¸ u;{1{ } m 1]^ r i \薟J ֨ ɵ [ζ 5x vf u v n 8qa_ # Clear and reasoned policy, approved at the top of the government, is the precondition of effective... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1972 - 2346 pages
...determination to support preconceived conclusions. Disraeli is quoted in the Nader report to the effect that "there are three kinds of lies — lies, damned lies, and statistics." This analysis of the Nader task force report may be useful in determining which words and statistics... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Rules and Administration Committee - 1973 - 664 pages
...listening to, if we do not know as much about it as we say. I guess it was Disraeli who once said, there are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies, and statistics. And we have heard, I think, some of the third kind of lie today — and on previous occasions. I have heard... | |
 | Occupational diseases - 1976 - 1068 pages
...of occupational and environmental disease? Let us examine the numbers, but with Disraeli's reminder that there are three kinds of lies : Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Most epidemiological evidence for the identification of causal agents comes from the occupational setting,... | |
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Someone once said that there are three kinds of lies: "lies, damned lies, and statistics. 
