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Who Are Nation's Poor? Census Pores Over Stats, Chester Smolski
Who Are Nation's Poor? Census Pores Over Stats, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"A wise old Englishman once said, 'The governments are keen on gathering statistics; they collect them, add them and raise them to the nth power, but you must never forget that in the first instance they are given by the village watchman who just puts down what he damn well pleases.'"
The Same Numbers Can Add Up To Various Sums, Chester Smolski
The Same Numbers Can Add Up To Various Sums, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"It was Benjamin Disraeli, supposedly, who first used this truism: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.' At a time of great interest in house prices and the growing field of demographics, it is incumbent on the reader to be aware of this when reading stories in these areas that are substantiated by numbers."