The bad news, even a good recipe can be spoiled by a poor cook.

The good news is that, with training, some poor cooks can improve their skills.

The bad news is, until they do improve, you are their experiment.

The good news is that you don't have to be the one to test their progress.

The bad news is, they, no you, control the control group.

The good news is that you can put down the knife, fork or spoon and get up from the table and quit the group.

The bad news is, without instruments, how are you going to get any data?

Maybe 'no data' is good. What if that were true?

The bad news is, often with 'no data', the program terminates catastrophically.

Who insures the integrity of the data? The good news would be if you could depend on it's accuracy.

The bad news is that 95% of all statistic are meaningless. The other 10% are erroneous.

The good news is that knowing that ^^^^ lets you avoid putting too much trust in predictions.

The bad news is, I knew you were going to say that.

:D

The good news is that I made your guess correct. :)

The bad news is, if everything is predictable, then the universe is fixed.