- Acronym: Hypothesize After Results are Known
- model your predictions and hypotheses around the results
- not scientific
- examples, further details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARKing
Types
more detailed on wikipedia ^
THARKing
- transparent about post hoc HARKing
CHARKing
- or “pure HARKing”
- constructing hypothesis
RHARKing
- retrieve old hypotheses
Sharking
- suppress actual priori hypotheses
Active / Passive
- active … on their own before publishing
- passive … based on feedback from reviewers, etc