Journalism teacher to his students: “Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is interesting, but what they hide is crucial.”
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Michelle Godkin List added these pithy words on Nov 17 09 at 1:05 amThat was my accounting professor’s sole “joke” in 1977: “A balance sheet is like a bikini; what it reveals is interesting, but what it conceals is substantial.”
We {women in the class} did not care for it 32 years ago.
