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Another issue is that they were testing multiple drugs, none of which had a statistically significant effect. Classic p hacking. https://xkcd.com/882/ https://
by scarmig 5y ago
Another issue is that they were testing multiple drugs, none of which had a statistically significant effect. Classic p hacking.
https://xkcd.com/882/ https://xkcd.com/882/
- scotty79 5y agoAssesing 7 promising substances to determine which one if any does anything and getting 30% effect on one and no effect on the rest is p-hacking? Is science allowed to research only one substance for specific purpose at any time to sufficiently avoid p-hacking for you? Also if I read correctly they got >0.60 not >0.05