Sentences with phrase «damned lies»
Last Months report on the two neighborhoods and A Tale of Two Markets: Lies Damned Lies and Statistics generated a lot of interest, so I thought I do the same sort of analysis for another two zip codes that we service: 30188 is in Woodstock Georgia and if you look at the results for the entire area you'll find that there are 196 Homes active today; 138 homes are under contract, and 960 sold in the last 6 months representing 160 sales a month on average.
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Last Months report on the two neighborhoods and A Tale of Two Markets: Lies Damned Lies and Statistics generated a lot of interest, so I thought I do the same sort of analysis for another two zip codes that we service:
There's lies, damned lies and statistics.
She is also the author of Lies, Damned Lies & Internships (2011) and #ENTRYLEVELtweet: Taking Your Career from Classroom to Cubicle (2010).
She is also the instructor of Find Me A Job: How to Score a Job Before Your Friends, author of Lies, Damned Lies & Internships ($ 10, amazon.com) and #ENTRYLEVELtweet: Taking Your Career from Classroom to Cubicle ($ 17.50, amazon.com), and writes career and recruiting advice for numerous outlets.
She is also the author of Lies, Damned Lies & Internships (2011), #ENTRYLEVELtweet: Taking Your Career from Classroom to Cubicle (2010), and writes career and recruiting advice for numerous outlets.
She is also the author of Lies, Damned Lies & Internships: The Truth About Getting from Classroom to Cubicle (2011), #ENTRYLEVELtweet: Taking Your Career from Classroom to Cubicle (2010), and writes career and recruiting advice for numerous outlets.
She is also the instructor of Find Me A Job: How To Score A Job Before Your Friends, author of Lies, Damned Lies & Internships (2011) and #ENTRYLEVELtweet: Taking Your Career from Classroom to Cubicle (2010), and writes career and recruiting advice for numerous outlets.
As the old saying goes, there's lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Lawyer shelling: lies, damned lies and collective wisdom Law Society Gazette «In Business» Blog (official blog of the Law Society)
«There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.»
As Drew Conway (creator of the Venn Diagram above) points out, «It is from [that] part of the diagram that the phrase «lies, damned lies, and statistics» emanates.»
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: «There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.»
One of the most famous analytical quips: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
All this confirms Disraeli's observation about «Lies, damned lies, and statistics.»
Image: Center for Neighborhood Technology, I - GO Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Do you want the good news or the bad news first?
They will forever split hairs and dig up lies, damned lies and statistics in an attempt to confuse and gleefully toss deaths around as if it were all a big numbers game.
There are lies, damned lies, and....
Beyond that, your statistical manipulations bring to mind the saying about lies, damned lies and statistics....
In «Noise: Lies, Damned Lies, and Denial of Global Warming» statistician Grant Foster shows how the manipulation of figures can be used to mislead the average person about global climate change.
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The Keystone XL pipeline debate has been a preeminent space for that old analytical adage of «Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics».
Noise: Lies, Damned Lies, and Denial of Global Warming by statistician Grant Foster should be an essential part of everyone's climate change library.
In the popular mind there are «lies, damned lies, and statistics» and, of course, you will do all you can to play up those fears in your campaign of disinformation.
The most interesting thing I've seen on your blog was the link to the Atlantic paper about medical research entitled «Lies, damned lies, and medical science».
Thank you, our EPA, for standing strong when political windbags and airheads, who care for nothing but padding their re-election coffers — for standing strong when these people pound you with lawsuits and personal insults, and outright damned lies.
If Mark Twain were alive today... «There are four kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics, and global warming denial.»
The book by Gant Foster is titled Noise: Lies, Damned Lies, and Denial of Global Warming and is a steal at $ 12.95 US.
But, since such a thing is unlikely, those of us who are speaking up need to not only speak up, but do so in such a manner as to leave no doubt where the lies and damned lies about Climate Science come from and what the results of listening to them might be.
Freedman, D.H., Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science, in The Atlantic.
As Benjamin Disraeli, once said, «There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.»
As they say, there are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics.
There are statistics, statistics and damned lies.
Teach for America: Lies, Damned Lies, and Special Contracts.
Mark Twain popularized the adage that there were «three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.»
As Mark Twain remarked, «There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics» so lets not forget that all those precise numbers are a house built on sand.
As sociologist Joel Best writes in Damned Lies and Statistics, «We may think of statistics as facts, but people make facts meaningful, and analysts» ideologies shape the meanings they assign to social statistics.»
His latest book is Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists (University of California Press, 2001).
It was Mark Twain who famously promoted the idea about three kinds of mistruths (lies, damned lies, and statistics), attributing the original sentiment to Disraeli.
When I read the summary of this in the Washington Post, it sounded like «damned lies and statistics» from the get - go and I wondered who had taken the study apart first; then I thought to look for for the analysis here — thanks for this, Zoe!
«Lies, damned lies, and...» You know the rest.
A previous British prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, is supposed to have put it more succinctly, as in «There are lies, damned lies and statistics.»
OK, OK, lies, damned lies and statistics, and all that.
For me personally, the grievance is not just about «lies, damned lies, and statistics» (or as Robert Walker put it «Lies, Damned Lies and Brexit»), but also about the attitude taken by some of the campaigns on how to address the voter.
However statistics are used by politicians and there is the saying of «Lies, Damned lies and Statistics».
Encouraging or a case of «damned lies and statistics»?
«There are lies, damned lies and statistics» is an old and well appreciated quote suggesting that anyone can produce stats to prove anything at any time.
I will not rehearse the usual caveats regarding «lies, damned lies and statistics» other than to say it is the closest we have to objectivity and whether we like it or not statistics are indispensable aids for football coaches (and sports coaches in general) around the world.
As for people whose argument is based around statistics I'll say two things; 1) How did teams buy players before this Americanisation came into the equation 2) And a quote; There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Now I fully get the lies, damned lies and statistics thing but difficult to see from the above what makes one the best CB in the world and the other one of the worst.