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Data Dredging

nounid 4813·updated May 13, 2026
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p-hackingstatistical bias
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Data Dredgings
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Data Dredging's
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Data Dredgings'

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Towards a Standard for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence1 senseview framework →
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A statistical bias in which testing huge numbers of hypotheses of a dataset may appear to yield statistical significance even when the results are statistically nonsignificant.

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