International Skeptics Forum - View Single Post - How to manipulate data, get results as good as PEAR, and be $1,000,000 richer

Baron Samedi · 1st March 2007, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by Kage

AWESOME. You have made my day.

Kage

Glad you liked it. I still would love to be able to try to pass this off to a woo journal and see if they buy it as real and concrete proof. I'm in a spiteful and vengeful mood today.

Originally Posted by Zygar

PEAR got good results?

Actually, this is very good data! Thanks.

Well, sure! You look hard enough, you'll always get good results. Or as I was taught in school, "If you torture the data enough, it will confess." And, of course, all good statisticians hang out at S&M bars. It's true!

1st March 2007, 04:19 PM	#7
Baron Samedi Critical Thinker Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 476	Originally Posted by Kage AWESOME. You have made my day. Kage Glad you liked it. I still would love to be able to try to pass this off to a woo journal and see if they buy it as real and concrete proof. I'm in a spiteful and vengeful mood today. Originally Posted by Zygar PEAR got good results? Actually, this is very good data! Thanks. Well, sure! You look hard enough, you'll always get good results. Or as I was taught in school, "If you torture the data enough, it will confess." And, of course, all good statisticians hang out at S&M bars. It's true!