Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: "British Museum" quote Message-ID: <1835@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Jan-87 10:44:28 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1835 Posted: Sat Jan 3 10:44:28 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Jan-87 03:36:17 EST References: <3800001@nucsrl.UUCP> <1171@whuts.UUCP> <13880@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Organization: Jack of Clubs Precision Instruments Lines: 22 Summary: wrong book > >A modified quote resulting in "all of William Shakepeares Works" > >was in either the book "How to Lie with Statistics" or its > >companion volume whose title I have forgotten. ... > > No, that quote is not from Darrell Huff's classic work, > now in its 36th printing. Huff never discusses combinatorics. > [REF] Huff, Derrell, "How To Lie With Statistics", New York, ... Take it easy! The "companion volume" is called _How to Take a Chance._ If I remember right, there's a chimp typewriting on the dust jacket.... (But I doubt that Huff gives the ur-reference.) Is Russell Maloney still alive? He might know. (He wrote the classic "Inflexible Logic.") "... they're still at it. Haven't spoiled a sheet of paper yet." -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: colonel@sunybcs, csdsiche@ubvms