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Dermott Ryder's Blog – November 2013 Archive (1)

102: NEWPORT FIFTY YEARS ON

Somewhere in the inspirational past an erudite lecturer of economics introduced me and my fellow inebriates to the maxim ‘there are lies, damned lies and statistics’, it has remained with me as a guiding light throughout my working life, so much so that, with apologies to Mark Twain [1835-1910] I often paraphrase it into support of other arguments.

I use the term argument not in a contentious way, a dispute where there is strong disagreement, but as a fact…

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