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Can someone explain the math behind the ‘p hacking’ for this study?

I think the best way to explain it is with this link: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/

Thank you, this is both awesome and terrible.

Alternatively, in comic form: https://xkcd.com/882/

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