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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
GLD 454.39+6.4%Feb 3 4:00 PM EST
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To: TobagoJack who wrote (159089)6/14/2020 1:13:57 PM
From: marcher  Read Replies (1) of 220000
 
--folks can make statistics say--

oh, wow, the american postmodern(?) cowboy maxim:

"figures don't lie but liars do figure"
:0)

i was introduced to this notion by a college athletics coach/emeritus professor.
here's the apparent origin and chronology:

"... In Congress in 1852... hasty errors, and hasty letters, ought to be carefully avoided,
particularly in matters of arithmetic, for, unfortunately, figures never lie, though men
sometimes do..."

later, some folks attributed the phrase to the clever wordsmith, mark twain.
quoteinvestigator.com

seems that today, the distinction between objective (numbers) and subjective (interpretation)
has turned into (another) pie-in-the-face clown act.
aka, teotwawki.

bwdik.

--g/ng--
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