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Data dredging

Data dredging, also known as data snooping or p-hacking, is the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant, thus dramatically increasing and understating the risk of false positives. This is done by performing many statistical tests on the data and only reporting those that come back with…

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Data dredging

Nodes62
Edges61
Triples28
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032258
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Data dredging

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related to Remedies · 15
Data dredging → Another, Benjamini, Bonferroni, Hochberg's, However, Methods, Once, One, Only, Scheffé's, The, This, To, Tukey, While
related to Hypothesis suggested by non-representative data · 9
Data dredging → August, By, However, John, Mary, Perhaps John, Someone, Suppose, The
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Data dredging → example of disregarding the multiple comparisons problem
instance of · 1
Data dredging → which aims to counteract very serious issues

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Data dredgingis aexample of disregarding the multiple comparisons problem0.90text
data dredginginstance ofwhich aims to counteract very serious issues0.80text
HARKinginstance ofwhich aims to counteract very serious issues0.80text
which have made theory-testing research very unreliableinstance ofwhich aims to counteract very serious issues0.80text
Data dredgingrelated to Hypothesis suggested by non-representative dataSuppose0.60section
Data dredgingrelated to Hypothesis suggested by non-representative dataAugust0.60section
Data dredgingrelated to Hypothesis suggested by non-representative dataMary0.60section
Data dredgingrelated to Hypothesis suggested by non-representative dataJohn0.60section
Data dredgingrelated to Hypothesis suggested by non-representative dataSomeone0.60section
Data dredgingrelated to Hypothesis suggested by non-representative dataBy0.60section
Data dredgingrelated to Hypothesis suggested by non-representative dataPerhaps John0.60section
Data dredgingrelated to Hypothesis suggested by non-representative dataThe0.60section

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