Unlucky Number 13? Manipulating Evidence Subject to Snooping

Questionable research practices have generated considerable recent interest throughout and beyond the scientific community. We subsume such practices involving secret data snooping that influences subsequent statistical inference under the term MESSing (manipulating evidence subject to snooping) and...

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Published inInternational statistical review Vol. 90; no. 2; pp. 397 - 410
Main Authors Hassler, Uwe, Pohle, Marc‐Oliver
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, NJ Wiley 01.08.2022
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects
data snooping
p‐hacking
p‐values
research transparency
Statistical inference
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Summary:Questionable research practices have generated considerable recent interest throughout and beyond the scientific community. We subsume such practices involving secret data snooping that influences subsequent statistical inference under the term MESSing (manipulating evidence subject to snooping) and discuss, illustrate and quantify the possibly dramatic effects of several forms of MESSing using an empirical and a simple theoretical example. The empirical example uses numbers from the most popular German lottery, which seem to suggest that 13 is an unlucky number.
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ISSN:1751-5823
0306-7734
1751-5823
DOI:10.1111/insr.12488