I actually have my own story about dodgy p-hacking. I was an undergraduate psychology student, and the tutor was talking about CBT for gambling addictionhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/967942288415457280 …
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On further examination, it appeared that CBT was effective for - get this - Asian women in one specific age group
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The entire paper was published based on this one significant finding, among 30-odd statistical tests that were not controlled for multiple comparisons
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When I asked if this finding might just be due to statistical chance, the tutor paused, uncomfortable, and said "could be" We then moved on to discuss the implications of the study
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This was just one small class of undergrad students in one university, but based on the work by Wansink it's hard not to see a pattern of p-hacking in psychology
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I would guess that 99% of the time it's unintentional, but it does highlight the importance of getting an independent statistician to do the stats for your studies
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