The problem with p-hacking is not the “hacking,” it’s the “p” (or, Fisher is just fine on this one)

Clifford Anderson-Bergman writes: On CrossValidated, a discussion came up I thought you may be interested in. The quick summary of it is that a poster posed the question that isn’t Fisher’s advice to go get more data when results are statistical insignificant essentially endorsing p-hacking. After a bit of a discussion that spanned an answer …