This month’s parting thoughts were contributed by Phil Handwerk,
Institutional Researcher, Law School Admission Council. Phil writes:
When I’m getting a bit full of myself and the “importance” of my data, I read the
following quote which hangs above my desk, think about those for whom data are not
a way of life, and come back to earth.
"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.'"
-- Mark Twain (Mark Twain’s Autobiography)
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