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Sports Commentary
The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.
Title text: The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.

    Explanation[edit]

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    P-hacking is the academically problematic practice of attempting to come up with a question for which the data offers a significant p-value (probability value), as opposed to correct scientific analysis in which a question is formulated clearly and then answered with data. A common way of doing p-hacking is analyzing subgroups to attempt to find significance when the full dataset does not yield statistically significant results; for instance, restricting the analysis of medical data to male subjects to derive a significant p-value when including female subjects would make the p-value insignificant, when the scientific question is largely gender-independent. Sports commentators do a form of p-hacking in which they cite a fact that's made to sound more significant by restricting the situations it applies to. Randall satirizes this with an example in which the restriction uses very specific criteria largely irrelevant to gameplay patterns in order to narrow down the subgroup sample size to a measly two games. Obviously the 0-2 record reflects random noise much more than any significant insight.

    This comic was published 11 days into the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

    Transcript[edit]

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    [Cueball and Ponytail are sitting at a table. On the wall behind them is a screen showing a soccer field with some unreadable score information above it.]
    Cueball: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they've gone 0 for 2 when they've scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically.
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    I wish sports commentators hadn't discovered p-hacking.

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    This is a test. PoolloverNathan[stalk the blue seas] 20:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

    This is not. —While False (museum | talk | contributions | logs | rights | printable version | page information | what links there | related changes | Google search | current time: 05:23) 18:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
    A foreign student asked me to help fight against his math teacher. That was unusual. He was in that class for just a couple of weeks. The teacher's phone number was sent to me. The student asked me to spam-call the teacher. 172.71.155.55 22:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

    here i'm just messing around in html, ignore this

    furhhfghure guyrburgryhuyvfr "rvhru"

    interesting way of writing quotations xd

    hmmm this one of putting "<p>" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line

    Please beware that <p> on mediawiki also disables automatic paragraph breaks, so you need a closing </p> or you'll break automatic paragraph formatting for the rest of the page. Zmatt (talk) 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

    edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from An user who has no account yet (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

    hi uh its hard to get here. is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
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