[Ads-l] ... on "Lies, damned lies & statistics"?

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

> Statisticians can afford to laugh at and profit by jokes at their expense.
>

I'd always considered the saying to be a put-down of people who
*manipulate* statistics and not a put-down of statisticians themselves.

Youneverknow.
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-Wilson
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