Nigel Balchin - The Small Back Room (1943)

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"Well facts are facts" said Tilly sulkily. "So they are, and figures are figures. Stop subtracting the date and get with it."

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Organic chemist!" said Tilley expressively. "Probably knows no statistics whatever."

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Am I supposed to give all the facts, or some of the facts, or my opinions or your opinions or what?

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"You know those penetration figures?" "Mm." "Well, there's a positive correlation between penetration and the height of the man firing." "Easy," I said. "The taller the man, the more rarefied the atmosphere and the less the air resistance."

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He divided people into statisticians, people who knew about statistics, and people who didn't. He liked the middle group best. He didn't like the real statisticians much because they argued with him, and he thought people who didn't know any statistics were just animal life.

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