p-hacking, or cheating on a p-value

Yesterday evening, I discovered some interesting slides on False-Positives, p-Hacking, Statistical Power, and Evidential Value, via  ‘s post on Twitter. More precisely, there was this slide on how cheating (because that’s basically what it is) to get a ‘good’ model (by targeting the p-value)

As mentioned by @david_colquhoun  one should be careful when reading the slides : some statistician might have a heart attack when they read

But still, there are interesting points in that slide.

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