User talk:Squarehead88

'data dredging' vs 'p-hacking'
Hello!

I noticed that the entry on Data Dredging ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

... leads with 'data dredging' and adds parenthetically, "also known as data snooping or p-hacking..."

But Google ngram viewer suggests that p-hacking has become the more common term, at least in books.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=p-hacking%2Cdata+dredging%2Cdata+snooping&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

As I would expect the term as it appears in books to lag online sources so it seems that 'p-hacking' has become the more common usage. This is a bit tricky since the url itself commits to 'data dredging'

I don't know if a change is needed for the entry ... yet. But it may be something to discuss broadly with others interested in this subject.

Cheers,

Larry LTHolyoke (talk) 16:28, 15 March 2024 (UTC)