LETTERS : The use and abuse of statistics
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From Mr Gwyn Evans Sir: About 20 years ago I heard an item on the radio, the comment made by an MP on the Minister's reply to his question: "The Minister uses statistics as a drunken man uses a lampost -more for support than for illumination."
Yours sincerely, GWYN EVANS Bristol 19 December
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