William Farr Quote

You complain that your report would be dry. The dryer the better. Statistics should be the driest of all reading.


Nightingale on Quetelet, Journal ofthe Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 1981 (p. 144)


You complain that your report would be dry. The dryer the better. Statistics should be the driest of all reading.

You complain that your report would be dry. The dryer the better. Statistics should be the driest of all reading.

You complain that your report would be dry. The dryer the better. Statistics should be the driest of all reading.

You complain that your report would be dry. The dryer the better. Statistics should be the driest of all reading.