Re: science for all?

[Brian Whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

That's an interesting book ad, from a Publisher's Weekly editorial,
which contains a statement it attributes to Joel Best,  Professor and
Chair of Criminal Justice at  U Delaware.
But where's the quote by Disraeli?

Brian W


At 03:54 PM 12/31/01, you wrote:
> >From this URL (a book ad!  :
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520219783/002-7446575-0092021
> >From Publishers Weekly
> Who really said, "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics" Mark Twain
> or Benjamin Disraeli? Best, professor of sociology at the University of
> Delaware and author of several books, including Random Violence, settles
> the question once and for all: Disraeli ...
> Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Whatcott" <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>
>
> > More a propos: that is indeed the quote by Twain.
> > Where's the quote by Disraeli?
> >
> > Brian W
> >
> > At 02:40 PM 12/31/01, Bob wrote:
> > >Apropos' :
> > >http://www.twainquotes.com/Statistics.html
> > >
> > >Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
>
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Brian Whatcott" <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>
> > >To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
> > >Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 3:23 PM
> > >Subject: Re: science for all?
> > > > . . .
> > > > Actually, there are four kinds of lies:
> > > > lies, damned lies, statistics, and quotations attributed
> > > >   to Disraeli by Mark Twain.

Brian Whatcott
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