It is this principle of post hoc ergo proptcr hoc which has established ( ?) so many misconcqjtions and false theories as truths. Most Christian Scientists whom I have met are sure of their science because they have been cured. The theory has been accepted... Psychology Applied to Medicine: Introductory Studies - Page 133by David Washburn Wells - 1907 - 141 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1897 - 1196 pages
...authentic, newly-found muster rolls from time to time. All of which tends to confirm the statement that there are three kinds of lies ; white lies, black lies, and statistics. This we do know, however, that in every important battle of the war, from Ticonderoga to Yorktown,... | |
| 1907 - 602 pages
...It is this principle of post hoc ergo proptcr hoc which has established ( ?) so many misconcqjtions and false theories as truths. Most Christian Scientists...undoubtedly true. Statistics often fail to tell the "ivholc truth," altho they may tell "nothing but the truth." In order to add to the sum of human knowledge,... | |
| Vermont. Commissioner of Agriculture - 1911 - 500 pages
...interesting, nor always reliable, but they are all we have as a criterion of comparison. Some one has said that there are three kinds of lies, white lies, black lies and statistics. I find that in Vermont the statistics of production are not taken every year as they are in Ohio, but... | |
| 1911 - 588 pages
...opportunity for a difference of opinion as to how questions should be answered. It has been said : "There are three kinds of lies, — white lies, black lies, and statistics." If all this be true, uniform schedules for reporting industrial accidents will not only prove highly... | |
| 1907 - 632 pages
...adherents from the most intelligent class of the laity? It is this principle of post hoc ergo proptcr hoc which has established (?) so many misconceptions...are "three kinds of lies: white lies, black lies and statistics'1; and to a certain extent this is undoubtedly true. Statistics often fail to tell the "u'holc... | |
| National Lutheran Educational Conference - 1920 - 136 pages
...OTTO MEES, DD, of Capital University. CHAPTER IX 'LUTHERAN COLLEGES FOR LUTHERAN WOMEN WE ARE told that there are three kinds of lies — white lies, black lies and statistics. Even at the risk of laying this paper open to such an implication I have chosen the statistical side... | |
| 1903 - 592 pages
...in scientific education. It must, however, be remembered that figures are illusive. It has been said that there are three kinds of lies — white lies, black lies and statistics. The figures given in the table are on their face difficult to unStudents and Studies. 1 1391-92 1892-93... | |
| Michael E. Evans - 2008 - 257 pages
...gone way up. Just keep in mind: Numbers don't lie-but people do. My daddy, once again, used to say: "There are three kinds of lies: White lies. Black lies. And statistics." In order to see the predators behind the prison industrial complex, you only have to ask two questions.... | |
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