From Covid-19 to the tobacco industry to the climate crisis ... a punchy, amusing history of the deliberate misuse of statistics
Lies, damned lies and statistics ... the number of Covid-19 tests that the government claimed were carried out included thousands of test kits that had merely been posted. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardianhe old saw that there are “lies, damned lies and statistics” is attributed to various figures, but was already considered proverbial in 1890 – perhaps as an adaptation of the old lawyers’ joke that there were three kinds of liars: “the liar simple, the damned liar and the expert witness”.
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