Quite a few years ago i devised an ambitious method to achieve significance while sitting through another braindead thesis presentation (psychology): If you ar

Quite a few years ago i devised an ambitious method to achieve significance while sitting through another braindead thesis presentation (psychology): If you are interested in the difference of a metric scaled quantity between two groups do the following: 1.) Add 4-5 plausible control variables that you do not document in advance (questionaire, sex, age...). 2.) Write a r-script that helps you do the following: Whenever you have tested a person increment your dataset with the persons result and run a: t-test u-test ordinal logistic regression over some possible bucket combinations. 3.) Do this over all permutations of the control variables. Have the script ring a loud bell when significance is achieved so data collection is stopped immediately. An added bonus is that you will likely get a significant result with a small n which enables you to do a reversed power analysis. Now you can report that your theoretical research implied a strong effect size so you choose an appropriate small n which, as expected, yielded a significant result ;)