WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:26:27 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg data mining – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Coase, Ronald -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/coase-ronald/33415/ https://wist.info/coase-ronald/33415/#respond Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:15:47 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=33415 If you torture the data long enough, Nature will confess.
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Ronald Coase (1910-2013) British economist, academic, author
(Attributed)

Criticizing econometricians. Cited as early as 1977. Variants:
  • "If you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything you'd like."
  • "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything."
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