p-2

A four-panel comic. An enthusiastic man with brown hair and a sweater vest gushes to a skeptical friend (dark hair, round glasses) about p-hacking, the practice of manipulating data analysis to manufacture statistically significant results. He says: 'Why is everyone opposed to p-hacking? It's brilliant! P-hacking makes you a wizard! If not for all the naysayers, we could wield total power over the entire universe! Literally ANYTHING can be true! We can control the economy! We can be telepathic! We can cure cancer!' His friend asks, 'Are you sure that's true?' He replies, 'Not yet, but if I can just pick the right data...' The joke treats p-hacking as a god-like power to make any claim true by cherry-picking data. Votey (bonus panel): handwritten text reading 'THIS COMIC IS FUNNY, p<.05' — mocking the standard statistical-significance threshold by applying it to the comic's own funniness.