alt Hacker NewsWhich is worse:
a) p-hacking and suppressing null results
b) hallucinations
c) falsifying data
Would be cool to see an analysis of this
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Proziam • today at 3:42 PM
All 3 of these should be categorized as fraud, and punished criminally.
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I'm doing some research, and this is something I'm unsure of. I see that "suppressing null results" is a bad thing, and I sort of agree, but for me personally, a lot of the null results are just the result of my own incompetence and don't contain any novel insights.