"12a. What is a term for the practice that you are engaging in? [5 words max]"

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There is ongoing debate in the scientific community about the validity of p-values in scientific research. Many scientists and statisticians are calling for abandoning statistical significance tests and p-values. The only way to avoid p-hacking is to not use p-values. You should make scientific inference based on some descriptive statistics and your domain knowledge (not p-values).

Ray Butler Not really. It’s because I believe it’s a p-hacking but the lecturer who designed this question insisted it’s the garden of the forking path.