Comment Re:Data mining (Score 1) 70
I prefer the more direct: "Numbers are like people. Torture them enough and they'll say whatever you want to hear."
More seriously, though, a solid predictive system usually needs both the qualitative and the quantitative analyses. These tools can inform decision-making, but can't make the decisions for anybody, unless the decisions are in the same discrete closed system. There aren't that many entirely closed systems in the world.