BALLAD OF THE CASUAL MODELER
     Words and Music by David Rogosa 1988
When I was a student
in seventy-three
I heard of new ways
to do psychology

If you had you some data 
and you knew a little math
you didn't need that much
thinkin'
you just draw in the path

CH
Now my model is busted
I can't make it fit
I drew in more arrows
but it still don't mean shit

Then they did it one better
way beyond you and me
with structures for variables
you never can see

Then came computer
programs
seminars too
by these fellows from
Sweeden 
to teach me and you

And professors were travellin'
from miles around
just to see the sight of that
chi-square go down

CH
Now my model is busted
I can't make it fit
I drew in more arrows
but it still don't mean shit

Now you might come to
wonder
after all of this fuss
where is the science
the knowledge you trust

And I've been a askin'
anyone I see
why I should take this stuff
seriously

CH
Now my model is busted
I can't make it fit
I drew in more arrows
but it still don't mean shit

I read all their papers
and I looked for the facts
All I found's a lotta claims
they just oughta retract

For they talk about models
in a casual way
If you think that means causal
then I'm Doris Day

CH
Now my model is busted
I can't make it fit
I drew in more arrows
but it still don't mean shit

Yes I drew in more arrows
but it still don't mean shit