Before revision: upright=1.3|A humorous example of a result produced by data dredging, showing a probably coincidental correlation between the number of letters in Scripps National Spelling Bee's winning word and the number of people in the United States killed by venomous spiders Data dredging (also known as data snooping or p-hacking) is the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant, thus dramatically increasing and understating the risk of false positives.
After revision: upright=1.3|A humorous example of a result produced by data dredging, showing a correlation between the number of letters in Scripps National Spelling Bee's winning word and the number of people in the United States killed by venomous spiders Data dredging (also known as data snooping or p-hacking) is the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant, thus dramatically increasing and understating the risk of false positives.