SORTING THE LEAVES ACCORDING TO QUALITY.
A VERY CLOSE FINISH.
Photo by C. M. Ward, Edinburgh
[STATISTICS GONE MAD.]
WITH APOLOGIES TO THE STATISTICAL SOCIETY AND MR. HOLT SCHOOLING.
By J. G. Grant.
Illustrated by the Author's diagrams.
Of late years our magazines have been overrun by the statistical fiend, and I propose to show how the thing is done.
I shall have the honour of laying before the reader a few startling statistics of facts and phenomena discovered by myself. These discoveries might have been made by anybody who would take the trouble, and the great point about them is what Mr. Jerome terms their hopeless veracity.