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p-hacking

Exploiting –perhaps unconsciously - researcher degrees of freedom until p<.05.
That finding seems to have been obtained through p-hacking, the authors dropped one of the conditions so that the overall p-value would be less than .05.

She is a p-hacker, she always monitors data while it is being collected.
by PProf March 1, 2012
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