P-hacking, Phenotypic Ambiguity, and the Limits of Statistical Inference in Psychiatry: Implications for ADHD Research

And why my research is ground-breaking but not publishable P-hacking - defined as undisclosed analytic flexibility that inflates false-positive findings - has been widely discussed as a contributor to the replication crisis across the behavioural sciences. While often distinguished from outright scientific fraud on the basis of intent, p-hacking produces equivalent epistemic damage by introducing untrustworthy findings into the […]