The professor will create small teams of 3-4 students. Each team will be responsible for reading about one of the six common pitfalls of data analysis described by this post at the Simply Statistics blog. The group will then prepare and present a brief (5-7 minute) presentation to the entire class on Thursday, March 10.

The six pitfalls are:

• Outcome switching.
• The garden of forking paths.
• P-hacking.
• Uncorrected multiple testing.
• “I got a big one here”.
• Double complication.

The presentation should provide the following details:

• Define the pitfall
• Give some detail about an example of the pitfall. You may use the example cited by the original author of the post. Consider adding additinal detail, such as figures/results from the actual paper/example he cites.
• The quick recipe for avoiding the pitfall.
• Optional: provide some commentary on how big of an issue you think this pitfall really is or could be in modern scientific research.