The end result may very well be the same in that you continue abusing the data until a finding becomes significant, but I would bet that in most cases what matters to people is not the p-value but the result. However, the p-value is usually probably secondary to the act here. That may be something you predicted but didn’t find or could even just be some chance finding that looked interesting and is amplified this way.
I will put it to you that in practice most p-hacking is not necessarily about hacking p-s but about dredging your data until your results fit a particular pattern. P-hacking refers to when you massage your data and analysis methods until your result reaches a statistically significant p-value. P-hacking and data dredging 12 Nov, 2017 at 14:31 | Posted in Statistics & Econometrics | Comments Off on P-hacking and data dredging
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