Ah, the Mike gambit.
Form a hypothesis.
Create a means to test the hypothesis.
Test the hypothesis.
Collect the data.
Adjust the data to fit the hypothesis. LOL
“Adjust the data to fit the hypothesis.”
In junior high chemistry that wad called “fudging your results” and if you’re caught you get a big fat F for that lab experiment. Now you get a full professorship at Penn State University with tenure.