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azan_ 26 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How to avoid P hacking

It’s more like you are supposed to toss 1000 times and after 500 tosses you get a lucky streak of 5 heads in a row and then decide to end experiment and conclude that coin is biased.

coolcase 25 days ago [–]

Oh yeah. Don't do that! Look at all 500 tosses.

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