The Natural Philosopher wrote:

5. It is very difficult if not impossible today
to fiddle with data, since there are statistical tests to see
if the numbers are coherent.

its actually easier, because you can write a program that will generate
a beautiful set of data samples scattered around whatever mean you want.

It is difficult to _modify_ a large quantity of data
in a way that does not show statistical inconsistency.

--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland