{"id":7753,"date":"2016-07-07T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=7753"},"modified":"2016-07-07T14:57:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T18:57:51","slug":"hbo-teaches-you-how-to-avoid-bad-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/hbo-teaches-you-how-to-avoid-bad-science\/7753\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Teaches You How to Avoid Bad Science"},"content":{"rendered":"Do you know what p-hacking is? John Oliver – of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” and formerly of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” – does. It’s a tricky, potent analytical pitfall that’s gaining increased, deserving attention – across fields of science and even within Predictive Analytics Times articles and Predictive Analytics World sessions. \u201cAn orange used car is least likely to be a lemon,\u201d for example. That’s what was claimed by The Seattle Times, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal. But this discovery has since been debunked as inconclusive. As data (more…)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you know what p-hacking is? John Oliver – of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” and formerly of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” – does. It’s a tricky, potent analytical pitfall that’s gaining increased, deserving attention – across fields of science and even within Predictive Analytics Times articles and Predictive Analytics World sessions. (more…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,7,720],"class_list":["post-7753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading-stories","tag-predictive-analytics","tag-predictive-analytics-world","tag-vast-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7753"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7765,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions\/7765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}