The Thunderbird Diaries… ‘lies, damn lies, and statistics’

So said the incomparable Mark Twain (Samuel Clemons), creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn – a brilliant observer who understood our basic human nature as well as anyone. Twain did not invent this ‘lies and statistics’ saying, but he knew that a weak argument sure seemed stronger by injecting numbers into it. Whether the […]