Paul Okami quoted: > "Any data set may be badgered into submission."
This sounds like one I turned up on Google: "If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything." (attrib. Fred Menger, Emory University) Some more: "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat every problem as a nail." --- Abraham Maslow "The plural of anecdote is not data." (variously attributed) "It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." (Sherlock Holmes -- allegedly) Okay, I'm straying a bit from the original request for great quotes from psychology, but we can't leave this topic without some choice aphorisms about psychoanalysis: "Psychoanalysis is the disease it purports to cure." --Karl Kraus "A successful pseudoscience is a great intellectual achievement. Its study is as instructive and worth undertaking as that of a genuine one." -- Frank Cioffi, "Freud and the Idea of a Pseudoscience" [1970], reprinted in Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience (Open Court, 1998), p. 115 "A lie is a disinterested false statement propagated by someone not Freud." -- Frank Cioffi [1972], "Wollheim on Freud", ibid, p. 148. "There are lies, damned lies, and psychoanalytic case histories." -- Allen Esterson, �Myths, Damned Myths, and Psychoanalytic Case Histories�: http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=58 Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=57 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=58 http://www.psychiatrie-und-ethik.de/infc/1_gesamt_en.html --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
