"...damned lies, and statistics" earlier attestation claim

Thu Nov 9 14:56:54 UTC 2006

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--Charlie
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>Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 09:40:18 -0500
>From: "Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM>
>Subject: Re: "...damned lies, and statistics" earlier attestation claim
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>        The quote apparently is also attributed to Bagehot in Hanor A. Webb, In Defense of the Subjective, Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 28, No. 6 (May, 1951), pp. 353-359.  Can someone check this on JSTOR? Maybe there's a cite.
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>John Baker

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