“A saying made famous by the American author Mark Twain is relevant: "There are three kinds of lies. Lies, damned lies, and statistics." wrote Shane Watling on ABC's The Drum. I’m no expert but even I didn’t think that sounded like something Old Sam would utter.
After letting my mouse loose in cyberspace, I decided to toss my lot in with York Uni which wasn’t impressed either and pointed out that Twain himself didn't claim authorship.
Matter of fact its Dept of Mathematics lists so many possible sire's for this saying that Shane can't even really claim that Twain made this bon mot famous.
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