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"Lies, damned lies and statistics" nghĩa là gì?
13 Jun, 2021
"Lies, damned lies and statistics" = nói dối, nói dối thậm tệ và thống kê -> nghĩa là số liệu thống kê có thể được dùng để lừa dối, dắt mũi còn hơn cả lời nói dối tệ nhất.
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“Lies, damned lies, and statistics”. So exclaimed (la lên) Mark Twain and so might we when faced with some education stats. This is not so much a blog on exclusions as the story of one man’s efforts to track down the truth behind some of these.
"THERE are three kinds of lies," Mark Twain famously wrote. "Lies, damned lies, and statistics." Too often, the Covid-19 crisis has lent support to the suspicions (nghi ngờ) Twain's bon mot expresses.
As every economist (nhà kinh tế học) knows, there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. But that view is not confined (giới hạn) to economists. It is now shared by many in the Scottish salmon sector, thanks to an extraordinary episode over export figures.
‘Stop clogging (cảm trở) the ER, you anti-vaxxers’. So 95% weren’t vaccinated? Over what time period, starting when? March 1, 2020? There are lies, damned lies and statistics. What an inane (ngu ngốc) letter and comment.
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