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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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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The implications of this study are the author didn't listen in second-year statistics class to theory you can explain to a teenager. Rotten business, this.
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Years' later I honestly can't believe that I was taught this shite as fact and wonder how much of the other 'facts' I was presented as gospel are actually based on similar work
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