type of p-hacking is known as HARKing, or Hypothesising After the Results are Known. It’s nicely summed up by the oft-repeated analogy of the ‘Texas sharpshooter’, who takes his revolver and randomly riddles the side of a barn with gunshots, then swaggers over to paint a bullseye around the few bullet holes that happen to be near to one another, claiming that’s where he was aiming all along.50 Both kinds of p-hacking
