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The Shape Of Probability - Harry Crane

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Are You P-Hackering?

A lot of times you can be p-hacking without knowing it. So an experimenter could rerun an experiment or keep running it in order to get a statistically significant result and just bury the evidence that did. This is something that's called the file drawer effect. What gets reported is the one out of every so many studies that I run that actually turns out to be significant. The results are still unreliable as they're reported.

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