P-Hacking: What It Is and How to Avoid It in Your Research
What Is P-Hacking? Imagine you run a study and your result comes back with a p-value of 0.08 — just above the usual 0.05 cut-off for “statistical significance.” Nothing is significant, and your hypothesis looks unsupported. So you try a few things: you drop a couple of unusual responses, you test a different subgroup, you …