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Subject: Re: 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 ?! Statistics for 2.Qh5

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 10:51:03 11/12/05

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On November 12, 2005 at 13:30:26, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On November 12, 2005 at 13:23:01, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>>Never trust a statistic you haven´t forged yourself.
>
>Something interesting to read about this cite (which seems to be well known in
>Germany):
>
>http://www.zeit.de/archiv/2002/18/200218_stimmts_churchil.xml

A slightly better link:
http://zeus.zeit.de/text/archiv/2002/18/200218_stimmts_churchil.xml

It is in German language. My short summary of the article: "Never trust a
statistic you haven´t forged yourself." seem to be a well known cite of Winston
Churchill. The journalist Chritoph Drösser of the German newspaper "Die Zeit"
doubts very much the authenticity of this cite. He even argues, that Churchill
believed very much in statistics.

Regards,
Dieter




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