HARKing: How Badly Can Cherry-Picking and Question Trolling Produce Bias in Published Results?

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HARK Side of Deep Learning - From Grad Student Descent to Automated Machine Learning (2019, background): “A number of studies in recent years have examined and discussed the incidences, causes and implications of such practices within various ﬁelds such as management, psychology as well as natural sciences [3, 4, 5].”
Best-Practice Recommendations for Producers, Evaluators, and Users of Methodological Literature Reviews (2020, background): “…of QRPs in literature reviews given that authors’ motivation to publish may in some cases supersede their motivation to be transparent and clearly communicate judgment calls (Aguinis et al., 2018; Aguinis & Solarino, 2019; Bettis et al., 2016; Murphy & Aguinis, 2019; Schwab & Starbuck, 2017).”