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Kishony also worries that such tools could make it easier for researchers to engage in dishonest practices such as P-hacking, for which scientists test several hypotheses on a data set, but only report those that produce a significant result.
Scientists used ChatGPT to generate an entire paper from scratch — but is it any good? Gemma Conroy 2023
alexz commented on the word p-hacking
"data dredging"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
Going through data to find a 'statistically significant result' which might lead people to an incorrect hypothesis.
August 14, 2016