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Fabricated data is rare. But cherry-picked data or model parameters which yield the desired result but are not robust or replicable, are not. That’s the biggest problem.


P-hacking and HARKing have become so normalized in many fields that researchers often don't even recognize when they're engaging in questionable research practices.




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