antedating "three kinds of falsehood...statistics" June 8, 1891

[Douglas G. Wilson]

I haven't read every pertinent message; please pardon me if this is
redundant or irrelevant.

Here is a likely predecessor, a seemingly popular essay entitled "Lies
of Statistics" (1870):

http://books.google.com/books?id=wz4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158&dq=%22lies+of+statistics%22+date:1850-1890&lr=&num=100&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES

(essay begins on p. 56).

-- Doug Wilson

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