P-HACKING

“The practice of running multiple tests, looking for a statistic that surpasses the threshold for statistical significance, and reporting only this”.

Academy of Medical Sciences (2015). Reproducibility and Reliability of Biomedical research: improving research practice, Symposium report, October 2015, p. 20,
https://acmedsci.ac.uk/viewFile/56314e40aac61.pdf

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