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To: M. Frank Greiffenstein who wrote (13300)	2/11/2000 8:13:00 PM
From: TraderGreg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14266

OT: Doc we both may be half right: From a web site I visited, there was the following: math.yorku.ca There is a famous quote about lies and statistics sometimes attributed to Mark Twain and sometimes attributed to Disraeli. I looked it up in _The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations_ and was referred to Twain's autobiography, which I quote. ********************************************************************** Mr. Twain wrote: I was very young in those days, exceedingly young, marvelously young, younger than I am now, younger than I shall ever be again, by hundreds of years. I worked every night from eleven or twelve until broad day in the morning, and as I did 200,000 words in the sixty days the average was more than 3,000 words a day - nothing for Sir Walter Scott, nothing for Louis Stevenson, nothing for plenty of other people, but quite handsome for me. In 1897, when we were living in Tedworth Square, London, and I was writing the book called Following the Equator,my average was 1,800 words a day; here in Florence (1904), my average seems to be 1,400 words per sitting of four or five hours. I was deducing from the above that I have been slowing down steadily in these thirty-six years, but I perceive that my statistics have a defect: 3,000 words in the spring of 1868, when I was working seven or eight or nine hours at a sitting, has little or no advantage over the sitting of to-day, covering half the time and producing half the output. Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." ********************************************************************** So Twain attributes the quote to Disraeli, but who knows for sure. TG