Top 4 Torture The Data Quotes
#1. If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
Ronald Coase
#2. Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained under duress may not be admissible in the court of scientific opinion.
Stephen Stigler
#3. Torture the data, and it will confess to anything, as
Ben Goldacre
#4. In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.
Evgeny Morozov
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