The crisis of science from ChatGPT's perspective. #openscience #replication #metascience #academicpublishing #publishorperish #phacking #HARKing
November 26, 2024 at 10:44 AM
The crisis of science from ChatGPT's perspective. #openscience #replication #metascience #academicpublishing #publishorperish #phacking #HARKing
After seeing FiveThirtyEights implementation of this idea (thank you @andrew.heiss.phd for sharing), I've been working on a medicine themed p-hacking simulator called Placebo playground: medicines.charlwood.xyz#phacking
#pharmsky #healtheconomics #medsky #pharmacy
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#pharmsky #healtheconomics #medsky #pharmacy
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April 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
After seeing FiveThirtyEights implementation of this idea (thank you @andrew.heiss.phd for sharing), I've been working on a medicine themed p-hacking simulator called Placebo playground: medicines.charlwood.xyz#phacking
#pharmsky #healtheconomics #medsky #pharmacy
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#pharmsky #healtheconomics #medsky #pharmacy
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Most researchers don’t set out to cheat, but they could unknowingly make choices that push them towards a significant result. Here are five ways p-hacking can slip into your research. By Ben Tsang @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #phacking #stats
P hacking — Five ways it could happen to you
Some data practices can lead to statistically dubious findings. Here’s how to avoid them.
www.nature.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Most researchers don’t set out to cheat, but they could unknowingly make choices that push them towards a significant result. Here are five ways p-hacking can slip into your research. By Ben Tsang @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #phacking #stats
Love it when people spell p-hacking with no hyphen, like "phacking". My mind pronounces it like "facking", and that is somehow strangely satisfying. 😌
#metasci
#metasci
October 5, 2023 at 12:13 PM
Love it when people spell p-hacking with no hyphen, like "phacking". My mind pronounces it like "facking", and that is somehow strangely satisfying. 😌
#metasci
#metasci
Phacking - it’s like phishing, but you do it to yourself.
October 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Phacking - it’s like phishing, but you do it to yourself.
p-hacking more like phacking
April 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
p-hacking more like phacking
#statstab #456 Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology
Happy new year! ✨
Thoughts: Starting the year with a resource to make you more cynical in 2026.
#QRPs #phacking #metascience #research #ethics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Happy new year! ✨
Thoughts: Starting the year with a resource to make you more cynical in 2026.
#QRPs #phacking #metascience #research #ethics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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journals.sagepub.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
#statstab #456 Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology
Happy new year! ✨
Thoughts: Starting the year with a resource to make you more cynical in 2026.
#QRPs #phacking #metascience #research #ethics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Happy new year! ✨
Thoughts: Starting the year with a resource to make you more cynical in 2026.
#QRPs #phacking #metascience #research #ethics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Anyone is free to text me at any time (even if it seems like I'm busy).
（；´д｀）ゞ Like, seriously! I don't phacking bite or anything.
（；´д｀）ゞ Like, seriously! I don't phacking bite or anything.
September 17, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Anyone is free to text me at any time (even if it seems like I'm busy).
（；´д｀）ゞ Like, seriously! I don't phacking bite or anything.
（；´д｀）ゞ Like, seriously! I don't phacking bite or anything.
These people when the movie has an Alien Starfish who speaks in color: 😀
Them when it has one (1) gay character:
Them when it has one (1) gay character:
November 1, 2024 at 3:33 PM
These people when the movie has an Alien Starfish who speaks in color: 😀
Them when it has one (1) gay character:
Them when it has one (1) gay character:
in which i list a bunch of scientific reforms & call them all populist gimmicks. for an hour.
writing & producing this episode was a real slog, in my 30°C, noisy studio (attic). it's likely also going to be a slog for my ~100 listeners.
#blockbuster #epic #openscience #reform #phacking #QRP
writing & producing this episode was a real slog, in my 30°C, noisy studio (attic). it's likely also going to be a slog for my ~100 listeners.
#blockbuster #epic #openscience #reform #phacking #QRP
Part II of my epic criticism of - some parts of - the #openscience / scientific #reform movement. Episode #40
"The populists" (& the podcasters; but not the meek)
Full text transcript, links & references (b-log):
theerrorbar.com?e=40
Podcast audio (a-log):
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the...
"The populists" (& the podcasters; but not the meek)
Full text transcript, links & references (b-log):
theerrorbar.com?e=40
Podcast audio (a-log):
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the...
Open Science and its Enemies. Part II: The populists by the error bar
in this episode i continue discussing some problems in the open science movement. i focus on populist podcasters and the promotion of simplistic heuristics that some scientists argue will improve scie...
podcasters.spotify.com
August 2, 2024 at 7:08 AM
in which i list a bunch of scientific reforms & call them all populist gimmicks. for an hour.
writing & producing this episode was a real slog, in my 30°C, noisy studio (attic). it's likely also going to be a slog for my ~100 listeners.
#blockbuster #epic #openscience #reform #phacking #QRP
writing & producing this episode was a real slog, in my 30°C, noisy studio (attic). it's likely also going to be a slog for my ~100 listeners.
#blockbuster #epic #openscience #reform #phacking #QRP
#statstab #135 {p-checker} The one-for-all p-value analyzer
Thoughts: Why not try your hand at some tools for detecting publication bias (mileage may vary). Useful teaching demo tools.
#shinyapp #r #rstats #phacking #pvalues #NHST #education #edu
shinyapps.org/apps/p-check...
Thoughts: Why not try your hand at some tools for detecting publication bias (mileage may vary). Useful teaching demo tools.
#shinyapp #r #rstats #phacking #pvalues #NHST #education #edu
shinyapps.org/apps/p-check...
Experience Statistics
shinyapps.org
July 12, 2024 at 3:35 PM
#statstab #135 {p-checker} The one-for-all p-value analyzer
Thoughts: Why not try your hand at some tools for detecting publication bias (mileage may vary). Useful teaching demo tools.
#shinyapp #r #rstats #phacking #pvalues #NHST #education #edu
shinyapps.org/apps/p-check...
Thoughts: Why not try your hand at some tools for detecting publication bias (mileage may vary). Useful teaching demo tools.
#shinyapp #r #rstats #phacking #pvalues #NHST #education #edu
shinyapps.org/apps/p-check...
☂️To bring clarity, we introduced "QRP umbrella terms" that group conceptually related QRPs. For example, #Phacking 🪓consists of 13 specific QRPs, and #CherryPicking 🍒covers 7. This disaggregation helps pinpoint specific behaviors.
July 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
☂️To bring clarity, we introduced "QRP umbrella terms" that group conceptually related QRPs. For example, #Phacking 🪓consists of 13 specific QRPs, and #CherryPicking 🍒covers 7. This disaggregation helps pinpoint specific behaviors.
First author was mid-phacking when a reviewer number two spiked his cortisol with a code and data request. Is ignoring the PubPeers while pre-regging and pre-printing #bropenscience more useful then H-index powermaxxing in the pub?
A lot of my beef with science reform comes down to this deep and personalized mistrust, and authoritarian measures to manage its consequences.
March 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
First author was mid-phacking when a reviewer number two spiked his cortisol with a code and data request. Is ignoring the PubPeers while pre-regging and pre-printing #bropenscience more useful then H-index powermaxxing in the pub?
YOR PHACKING COOKED
November 21, 2024 at 5:31 PM
YOR PHACKING COOKED
Phacking is not dead I see
A new study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, found a 15% increase in traffic fatalities on the days major new albums are released, compared with the days immediately before and after. https://cnn.it/4g2Sl1d
August 19, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Phacking is not dead I see
I'd love to see more systematic evidence! FWIW, I've been in the room many times when audience members recommended some weird fishing/phacking trick, and the author said "I wish I could but we didn't preregister that." That's obv weak, unsystematic evidence, so the prior is still doing work for me
May 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I'd love to see more systematic evidence! FWIW, I've been in the room many times when audience members recommended some weird fishing/phacking trick, and the author said "I wish I could but we didn't preregister that." That's obv weak, unsystematic evidence, so the prior is still doing work for me
June 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Most researchers don’t set out to cheat, but they could unknowingly make choices that push them towards a significant result. Here are five ways P hacking can slip into your research."
buff.ly/ArtMGCu
#PHacking #PValue #ScientificRigor
buff.ly/ArtMGCu
#PHacking #PValue #ScientificRigor
P hacking — Five ways it could happen to you
Some data practices can lead to statistically dubious findings. Here’s how to avoid them.
buff.ly
May 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"Most researchers don’t set out to cheat, but they could unknowingly make choices that push them towards a significant result. Here are five ways P hacking can slip into your research."
buff.ly/ArtMGCu
#PHacking #PValue #ScientificRigor
buff.ly/ArtMGCu
#PHacking #PValue #ScientificRigor
it's not p-hacking unless it comes from the pHacking region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling specification curve analysis
June 8, 2026 at 8:51 PM
it's not p-hacking unless it comes from the pHacking region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling specification curve analysis
Check out the preprint for the full results (also combinations of p-hacking strategies) and the accompanying Shiny app, where you can check out your favorite p-hacking combinations ;)
emaassen.shinyapps.io/phacking/
emaassen.shinyapps.io/phacking/
<div style="font-size:20px; margin-bottom:5px;">Estimating Effect Size and Heterogeneity in Meta-Analysis in the Presence of Publication Bias and p-hacking</div>
emaassen.shinyapps.io
June 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Check out the preprint for the full results (also combinations of p-hacking strategies) and the accompanying Shiny app, where you can check out your favorite p-hacking combinations ;)
emaassen.shinyapps.io/phacking/
emaassen.shinyapps.io/phacking/