Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote

It is the habit of many to sneer at statisticians, because a foolish man once said that you could prove anything from statistics; but statistics are like circumstantial evidence, which cannot err in itself, though false deductions Our Criminals


Belgravia, Volume VII, Third Series, October, 1875 (p. 484)


It is the habit of many to sneer at statisticians, because a foolish man once said that you could prove anything from statistics; but statistics are...

It is the habit of many to sneer at statisticians, because a foolish man once said that you could prove anything from statistics; but statistics are...

It is the habit of many to sneer at statisticians, because a foolish man once said that you could prove anything from statistics; but statistics are...

It is the habit of many to sneer at statisticians, because a foolish man once said that you could prove anything from statistics; but statistics are...