Funny, but not as good as the econ paper I once came across extolling the virtues of a method which allowed one to "sidestep the issues associated with negative

Funny, but not as good as the econ paper I once came across extolling the virtues of a method which allowed one to "sidestep the issues associated with negative degrees of freedom" (or something to that effect.) In other words, fitting a line to one data point :-)