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Hi, I'm currently working on an assignment regarding p-hacking. I want to make the point that p-hacking can have real-life consequences, as the data being put out there could be applied in the wrong way. I already have an example of how p-hacking led to the WHO canceling their distribution of malaria medication.

But, I need a specific example from psychology, and I can't find anything. I find plenty of papers explaining that p-hacking is common and why it's a problem, but no concrete examples of studies where p-hacking was discovered. Does anyone have an example in mind? Or maybe a study whose results have been questioned?

Thank you in advance!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Next to inviting citations, it would also be nice for everyone to be able to add citations. Make it more of a collaborative effort than someone's time line.

Would it need a way to make clear we are really interested in the citation? I feel that most cases people ask for citations, they mean to say diplomatically that the claim is nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

I have an open science news feed on Lemmy and Mastodon (and Reddit and Twitter). Now I no longer need to do this double.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.ml/c/fediversefutures works https://lemmy.ml/u/openscience works But https://lemmy.ml/c/openscience does not work

So it is not the translation from the @-form to the URI-form of writing an account name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (7 children)

I cannot seem to get it to work. When I type @[email protected] into the Mastodon search box I get a link to the fediversefutures community (group) profile. But if I type @[email protected] in the search box, I get a link to a user called @openscience, but not to the [email protected] community. Is this a software bug or am I doing something wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

And all governments, including the ones that America bullies, are in on it as well as thousands of scientists. Conspiracies of that scale are impossible to pull off. Just like the moon landing. It is easier to land on the moon.

It walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, maybe it is a duck and this virus emerged like any other virus in the past.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Found it and posted it there. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Mastodon has it. I feel it is important, even if not many people would use it, it is a useful check on the power of the instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

I remember an article claiming that Reddit had it relatively easy in dealing with disruptive groups compared to other social media system is that they have a ban evasion rule. So that when a Subreddit was banned and created a new sub they could be banned again before creating problems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Is the main side-wide problem that these posts turn up in the search results? Otherwise they are only seen by people subscribing the moderated communities people subscribed to?

If yes, an option for (low volume) spammers could be to only exclude them from search results and otherwise have the moderators of the communities and their downvoters deal with them. As you already write many cases are grey areas, so maybe in such cases such more subtle mechanisms are enough.

As only removing from the search results is less disruptive one could moderate more posts this way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Replace them with cat emojis?

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