What you are citing is not the "scientific process" ... what it is I won't conjecture but it's not science. Science is suppose to be about performing controlled experiments in order to firstly determine which independent variables are significant to a system's workings and which ones aren't ... and don't forget to randomize the order of your experiments or you  might mistake regular background error with actual important correlation.

So please, when you folks do your "economics" crap, please leave science out of it. Cite religion or something else equally stupid.

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