On statistics…

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
— Oscar Wilde

“First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure.”
— Mark Twain

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
— Benjamin Disraeli

“Then there was the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.”
— W. I. E. Gates

(From W3schools’s Browser statistics page)

I don’t like statistics. They’re misleading.