Seed Mining: Using Intentional Seed Setting to P-hack Bootstrap Estimates

• In Event: Electronic Board Session III

Abstract

We introduce “seed-mining” as a method of p-hacking bootstrap estimations. Seed mining is the systematic search for a seed that produces a confidence interval or p-value that helps publication likelihood. Including the seed in pre-registration of studies that use bootstrapping and similar methods can reduce the threat.

Author

• Wilson Hatcher, UNLV CREA