Cookbookery

In this degenerate laboratory work, in this cookbookery of a ritual of recipes, the aim is not to do an honest experiment but to get the "right" answer.

Most of the New Math is just what the Old Math was — cookbookery. The difference is that the cookbooks are newer, more up to date — which may be a good thing, if cookbookery is what you want.

The problem of cookbookery is not peculiar to data analysis. But the solution of concentrating upon mathematics and proof is.