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p-hacking: a standalone construct

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Research methods

flexibility in collecting and analyzing data that lets researchers find significance where there is none.

In research methods, p-hacking refers to flexibility in collecting and analyzing data that lets researchers find significance where there is none. This meaning comes from Simmons (2011) in Psychological Science.[1]

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References

Simmons, J. P., Nelson, L. D., & Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science, 22(11), 1359-1366. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417632

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