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by brittanymdavis1 1763 days ago
Unfortunately this pressure - especially in research communities - has led to a lot of p-hacking.

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/24/13386

It's similar in a business context - the "pressure" of finding a causal result (especially in situations using AB testing) lead to poor analysis practices in order to find something significant.