if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything

if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything

If you manipulate your data, you can make it prove anything you want. I'm suspicious of his research. I mean, if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything! But is any of it accurate and unbiased? A: "You know, if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." B: "That's exactly what I don't want you to do, OK? We need to find the real source of the discrepancy here." How much do you trust their lead researcher? Because you know as well as I do that, if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.

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