Humor

(NOTE: This ironic blog post was originally published on http://www.nicebread.de/introducing-p-hacker/) My Dear Fellow Scientists! “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” This aphorism, attributed to Ronald Coase, sometimes has been used in a dis-respective manner, as if it was wrong to do creative data analysis. In fact, the art of creative data analysis has experienced despicable attacks over the last years.