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The old adage that "there are lies, damned lies, and statistics" is, funnily enough, rather hard to find an original source for. 俗语有云：“世上有三种谎言：谎言，该死的谎言，以及统计数据”。但有趣的是，很难找到这句话的出处。 It was popularised by the American author Mark Twain, who attributed it to British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. 美国大作家马克·吐温对英国首相本杰明·迪斯雷利说过这句话，之后就流行开来了。 But we digress. 但是我们要说的不是这个。 Here are nine statistics, courtesy of a Reddit thread, which will make you very much doubt them: Reddit网站消息人士提供的信息显示，以下9个数据会让你深表怀疑： 1) Two out of three Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer by the time they are 70 （1）在70岁的时候会有三分之二的澳大利亚人会得皮肤癌 The Cancer Council of Australia says that, over past decades, the incidence of skin cancer has risen in Australia - by 60 per cent between 1982 and 2010 in melanoma diagnoses. 澳大利亚癌症委员会称，在过去的数十年间，澳大利亚患皮肤癌案例呈上涨趋势，其中从1982年到2010年，黑素瘤患者比例就增加了60％。 Between 1998 to 2007, GP consultations to treat non-melanoma skin cancer increased by 14 per cent, reaching 950,000 visits each year. | 
