Statistics

Sir Josiah Stamp who was head of Britain’s Inland Revenue Department from 1896-1919 said:
“The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.
But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what ever he damn pleases.”

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