Is There a Problem With Research Grants?

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All scientists, no matter who they are getting their funding from, have pressure to produce results. And i think that's part of the pressure that leads to things like pea hacking. You've collected all this data, and it's not statistically significant with respect to the hypothesis that you thought you were testing. So what do you do now? Well, let me just see if many of my athe dait different way of i slice ad indice it.

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