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> The idea that median researchers are not intelligent enough to understand p-hacking is just absurd: it is not a sophisticated topic. I imagine the median researcher in fact has a robust and cynical understanding of p-hacking because they can do it to their own data. Such a researcher may be cowardly and dishonest, but their intelligence is not the problem. This is the crux of my disagreement with the post: the replication crisis is a social problem, not a cognitive problem.

That doesn't seem true: See Figure 1 of https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105353570...? and the original results associated with the Linda problem.

Statistics is difficult and unintuitive.