Forking paths. [1], overfitting, fitting to the holdout set, etc etc. "P-hacking" applicable to vastly more than stock data and is not evidence of anything, ev

Forking paths. [1], overfitting, fitting to the holdout set, etc etc. "P-hacking" applicable to vastly more than stock data and is not evidence of anything, evidence is what was asked for. Your response implies I'm ignorant and can't google p-hacking without being told the name of that one way of finding false correlation applicable to many, many fields. Now you're getting a bit cross about it that I've quietly pointed out that it isn't useful, and you're not actually providing expertise here which you thought you were. It's kind to provide expertise and I appreciate the kindness. You misread, fine. Best. edit: Oh wait > Or maybe that term is more general, I'm not 100% sure, but it's close. That is an edit addition to the parent after my reply, so I guess you did get the point. Best. [1] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_hacking.pdf http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_...