P-hacking

"P-hacking" in a Sentence (2 examples)

There are many common problematic research practices such as p-hacking.

Cherry-picking promising findings, also known by such terms as data dredging, significance chasing, significance questing, selective inference, and “p-hacking,” leads to a spurious excess of statistically significant results in the published literature and should be vigorously avoided.

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