A new member of a basketball coaching staff, whose team is at the bottom of the league, has just completed a study into factors that affect player performance levels. However, he finds only one statistically significant factor, which he includes in his report but deliberately, omits the other six non-significant findings. What is the term for what the coach has done?
A) p-hacking
B) HARKing
C) Meta analysis
D) Bayesian analysis

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The coach has engaged in p-hacking, which involves selectively reporting only statistically significant results while ignoring non-significant ones, potentially leading to misleading conclusions.

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