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Re:Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19 by ARandomerDude on Thursday October 28, 2021 @01:15AM (#29022624)
No. It's called p-hacking, and it's a sleazy way to get published.

https://youtu.be/42QuXLucH3Q

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Re:Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19 by bpodgursky on Thursday October 28, 2021 @01:58AM (#29022865)
This is not p-hacking. p-hacking is when you don't pre-register your hypothesis and you hunt for ones which hit .05 after the fact.

There was a single hypothesis being tested here.

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Re:Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19 by darkerside on Thursday October 28, 2021 @01:03PM (#29028339)
It was an adaptive clinical trial with multiple arms, so it wasn't a single hypothesis. Apparently this is considered legitimate in medical trials, but I have some reservations about the concept.
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Re:Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19 by scotty79 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @05:42AM (#29024083)
Also this was >0.60 not around 0.05 If I read correctly.
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