"Lies, damned lies and statistics"
— Misquotations
January 1, 1970
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Popularized by Mark Twain in 1906, he mistakenly attributed the phrase to Benjamin Disraeli. A variant of the phrase, which divided witnesses into "liars, damned liars and experts," is first noted in late 1885, with the phrase in its best-known form, used instead to describe categories of falsehoods, in common parlance by 1891. There survives no clear evidence as to who coined the phrase in either form.
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Popularized by Mark Twain in 1906, he mistakenly attributed the phrase to Benjamin Disraeli. A variant of the phrase, which divided witnesses into "liars, damned liars and experts," is first noted in late 1885, with the phrase in its best-known form, used instead to describe categories of falsehoods, in common parlance by 1891. There survives no clear evidence as to who coined the phrase in either form.