If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.

I hate when people ask me to: "Massage the data".

Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it.

A firm, therefore, consists of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur... As a firm gets larger, there may be decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function, that is, the costs of organising additional transactions within the firm may rise.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.