P-Hacking
Definition
Trying multiple analyses, subgroups or cutoffs on the same dataset until a statistically significant result appears, then reporting only that result.
Related terms
- Fabrication
- Inventing data, results or entire cases that were never actually observed, collected or recorded.
- Falsification
- Manipulating research materials, equipment or processes, or changing or omitting data, so that the record no longer accurately reflects what happened.
- HARKing
- Hypothesising after the results are known: presenting a hypothesis formed after seeing the data as though it had been predicted beforehand.
- Plagiarism
- Presenting another person's words, ideas, data or findings as one's own without adequate credit, including copying one's own previously published work without...
- Retraction
- A formal withdrawal of a published article by a journal or its authors, issued when the findings can no longer be trusted...