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In recent years, there has been a lot of attention on hypothesis testing and so-called “p-hacking”, or misusing statistical methods to obtain more “significa...

In recent years, there has been a lot of attention on hypothesis testing and so-called “p-hacking” , or misusing statistical methods to obtain more “significant” results. Rightly so: For example, we spend millions of dollars on medical research, and we don’t want to waste our time and money, pursuing false leads caused by flaky statistics. But even if all of our assumptions are met and our data collection is flawless, it’s not always easy to get the statistics right; there are still quite a few subtleties that we need to be aware of. This post introduces some of the interesting phenomena that

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