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> ... unethical behaviour during the report of results is.. P hacking... frequent in research.. [of a] clinical nature... two main reasons.. First, scientists are often evaluated by the number and quality of publications, and sometimes this pressure to get significant results makes some scientists cherry-pick their results. Second (and more frequent), some inexperienced analysts are unaware of the importance of #MultipleTesting and think this is
OK. But it is not! #PHacking
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New paper provides a history of “voodoo science,” which discusses the controversy surrounding Vul et al.’s (2009) controversial article “Puzzlingly High Correlations in FMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition.”
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🔓 https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12010015
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