r/Open_Science - P-hacking
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Hi, I’m currently working on an assignment regarding p-hacking. I want to make the point that p-hacking can have real-life consequences, as the data being put out there could be applied in the wrong way. I already have an example of how p-hacking led to the WHO canceling their distribution of malaria medication.

But, I need a specific example from psychology, and I can’t find anything. I find plenty of papers explaining that p-hacking is common and why it’s a problem, but no concrete examples of studies where p-hacking was discovered. Does anyone have an example in mind? Or maybe a study whose results have been questioned?

Thank you in advance!

      • Arsen6331 ☭
        2·
        2 years ago

        Using a single instance makes you vulnerable to it not working or being blocked; use Farside to get a link that should always redirect to a working frontend: https://farside.link/teddit/r/Open_Science/comments/yref4h/phacking/

        Thanks, this is a good suggestion, I’ll do that. However, this also creates the (admittedly less likely) risk of farside.link being down and causing people not to be able to open anything. Is there a list of instances somewhere that I can use for redundancy? If there are no other known instances, I’ll host one myself.

        (If you’re going to annoy people with a bot like that, the least you can do is make sure you provide the best possible alternative)

        I originally created the bot for Lemmygrad, where most people do seem to be enjoying it because many of us don’t like visiting big tech sites that mine data. If people here are annoyed by it, I’d be happy to limit the bot to Lemmygrad so it doesn’t reply to lemmy.ml content.

        • Tanguy Fardet@scicomm.xyz
          2·
          2 years ago

          @Arsen6331

          > Is there a list of instances somewhere that I can use for redundancy?

          I imagine you mean farside instances, right?
          If so, that’s a good question to which I don’t have an answer… I’m actually interested if you find others or host one yourself.

          > If people here are annoyed by it, I’d be happy to limit the bot to Lemmygrad

          I don’t think a bot is the right way to do this if it’s not on the instance’s ToS, but I don’t speak for lemmy.ml ;)