Monday, November 05, 2007

Lies, damn lies, and Florence Nightingale

There is probably no department of human inquiry in which the art of cooking statistics is unknown, & there are sceptics who have substituted 'statistics' for 'expert witness' in the well known saying about classes of false statements
Sir Edward Cook : Life of Florence Nightingale 1913

This sounds like the source for the saying about lies, damn lies etc.

Not Disraeli after all. More like a judicial joke