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mk  ·  4825 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What if academics were as dumb as quacks with statistics?
I had a funny physics prof who once said:

If you give a great physicist a set of data, he can say: "Exactly! Here's why..." and if you then give him a completely contradictory set of data he can say: "Exactly! Here's why..."