Stats
Original: Stats on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with light/blond hair sits at a desk looking at a computer monitor, turning to speak. A man stands behind her, smiling.
Woman: "Wait! Look. If we change our hypothesis a little, run this other model, and then make a few tweaks to the variables, BAM! No need to publish, the weekend is free."
Caption (below panel): New scientific trend: reverse p-hacking.
Votey:
A woman with light hair, eyes wide and grinning, leans toward the viewer.
Woman: "Wait, here we go. If we remove a large number of inliers, we come in just outside of statistical significance!"
A woman with light/blond hair sits at a desk looking at a computer monitor, turning to speak. A man stands behind her, smiling.
Woman: "Wait! Look. If we change our hypothesis a little, run this other model, and then make a few tweaks to the variables, BAM! No need to publish, the weekend is free."
Caption (below panel): New scientific trend: reverse p-hacking.
Votey:
A woman with light hair, eyes wide and grinning, leans toward the viewer.
Woman: "Wait, here we go. If we remove a large number of inliers, we come in just outside of statistical significance!"
Alt text
Main comic (single panel): A blond woman sits at a desk in front of a computer monitor and turns to talk excitedly to a smiling man standing behind her. She says, "Wait! Look. If we change our hypothesis a little, run this other model, and then make a few tweaks to the variables, BAM! No need to publish, the weekend is free." A caption underneath reads: "New scientific trend: reverse p-hacking." The joke: instead of the usual p-hacking to manufacture significant results worth publishing, she's gaming the analysis to make results NON-significant so there's nothing to write up and she gets her weekend off.
Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of a wide-eyed, grinning woman leaning toward the viewer, saying, "Wait, here we go. If we remove a large number of inliers, we come in just outside of statistical significance!" She gleefully throws out good data points (inliers) to push her results just barely out of significance.
Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of a wide-eyed, grinning woman leaning toward the viewer, saying, "Wait, here we go. If we remove a large number of inliers, we come in just outside of statistical significance!" She gleefully throws out good data points (inliers) to push her results just barely out of significance.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.