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Although technically, this would be P-hacking. You aren't meant to change your hypothesis post-facto to fit the data. You'd have to conclude no effect, and then
by native_samples 4y ago
Although technically, this would be P-hacking. You aren't meant to change your hypothesis post-facto to fit the data. You'd have to conclude no effect, and then design a separate study to determine if age differences correlate with bad faith answers.
- alex_smart 4y agoIt would be p-hacking if we just took the same data to conclude that old people are more likely to give bad faith responses. That is just a possible explanation for the data being offered to reject the original hypothesis. At the very least, it is an interesting observation that the entire trend line disappears on removing data points where people guess all same coin toss results.