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

Stephen Goranson goranson at DUKE.EDU
Thu Nov 9 15:27:54 UTC 2006


FWIW, another attribution via JSTOR: American J. of Philology v.33 n.2 (1912)
240:

Walter Bagehot is credited with the climax: Lies, damned lies,
statistics [....]

Stephen

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