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34: The Replication Crisis, Human Senses, and Pride Flags

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The P Value and P-Hacking

P stands for probability. P-hacking is when you recalculate, reanalyze, reshape the data until you can get that like good, good P value number to be statistically significant. Usually the threshold is you want to get at less than 0.05 or less than a 5% chance. Lots of scientists now are growing to think that statistical significance is not useful anymore in this way.

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