Professor Werner does not initially get statistically significant results from her data, so she keeps doing different types of statistical tests until significant results turn up. She is guilty of
A) data snooping.
B) data forgery.
C) data trimming.
D) data torturing.
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Q43: _ refers to collecting data on a
Q44: _refers to the practice of formulating hypotheses
Q45: Professor Nowitzki writes a journal article reporting
Q46: Professor Nowitzki discards data that do not
Q47: Professor Werner drops the scores of some
Q49: Data torturing consists of
A) reporting the results
Q50: Professor Wiley periodically checks his results and,
Q51: Data trimming consists of
A) removing outliers from
Q52: Which of the following is an example
Q53: Why is data snooping a problem?
A) It
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