• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    Right, these record unemployment and CPI numbers are derived by changing the calculations…

    P-Hacking?

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      8 months ago

      P-hacking is adjusting your data, but the formulation of the P-value statistic doesn’t change.

      Here they just straight up changed the recipe.