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#quoteinvestigator

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Sam Young<p>Lies, damned lies and statistics<br>A process to track down the REAL originators of quotes. Try this at <a href="https://www.samyoung.co.nz/2025/03/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">samyoung.co.nz/2025/03/lies-da</span><span class="invisible">mned-lies-and-statistics.html</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/QuoteInvestigator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuoteInvestigator</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Disraeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disraeli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Twain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Mackay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mackay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a></p>
Óli Gneisti (English)<p>I think the reason why <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/GoogleSuggestedQuestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleSuggestedQuestions</span></a> falsely attributes this line to <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Gandhi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gandhi</span></a> is because the information is from the <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/BritishMedicalJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishMedicalJournal</span></a> and <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> thinks the BMJ is trustworthy but the search engine can't compute that the journal is an authority on medicine, not <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a>. Google also fails to differentiate between opinion and <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeerReview</span></a>.</p><p>Google should "know" that <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WikiQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WikiQuote</span></a> and <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/QuoteInvestigator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuoteInvestigator</span></a> are much better at this.</p><p>Like the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@neilhimself" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>neilhimself</span></a></span> quote:</p><p><a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/04/23/library/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">quoteinvestigator.com/2016/04/</span><span class="invisible">23/library/</span></a></p>
RationalWiki<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://octodon.social/@Dianora" class="u-url mention">@<span>Dianora</span></a></span> There&#39;s no evidence that Twain ever said this, which should be taken as he did not say it until proven otherwise. The lack of evidence is confirmed by:</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Snopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Snopes</span></a>:<br /><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-mark-twain-say-its-easier-to-fool-people-than-to-convince-them-that-they-have-been-fooled/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">snopes.com/fact-check/did-mark</span><span class="invisible">-twain-say-its-easier-to-fool-people-than-to-convince-them-that-they-have-been-fooled/</span></a></p><p>Quote investigator:<br /><a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/12/23/fooled/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">quoteinvestigator.com/2020/12/</span><span class="invisible">23/fooled/</span></a></p><p>And most importantly by the Mark Twain Project, as cited by Snopes.</p><p>There are so many fake or misattributed <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotes</span></a> floating around the web, a cottage industry of websites generating <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>memes</span></a> like this one in fact. It&#39;s only going to get worse with these damn <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chatbots</span></a> generating more garbage. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/garbageingarbageout" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>garbageingarbageout</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/quoteinvestigator" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quoteinvestigator</span></a></p>
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