<p>This weekend a question got asked about exploratory analysis and p-hacking:</p>
<p><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/602020/is-exploratory-data-analysis-fundamentally-at-odds-with-p-hacking">Is &quot;Exploratory Data Analysis&quot; Fundamentally At Odds With &quot;P-Hacking&quot;?</a></p>
<p>This is a broad topic to begin with and the question — in my opinion — is too long and lacks clarity. However, it's also an important and interesting topic, so instead of &quot;Needs more focus&quot; I voted to close and found threads that discuss the topic with eloquence and pointers to further resources, etc. I can only suggest one duplicate but in a comment to the question I linked to 5 (near) duplicates as it's hard to find close duplicates for a question that asks many sub-questions.</p>
<p>Today the question has been re-opened. This is fine by me. It's possible that I misjudged the qualities of the question.</p>
<p>However, I would like to ask for some practical advice on how to calibrate my understanding of what &quot;needs more focus&quot; and &quot;is a duplicate&quot; and esp. at the intersection of these two cases. Searching for duplicates takes time and often it seems easier to write a new answer than to look for great existing answers.</p>
<p>Related meta threads:</p>
<p><a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2310/what-is-our-policy-on-merging-duplicate-questions">What is our policy on merging duplicate questions?</a> <br>
<a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2569/many-historical-duplicate-questions-how-to-pick-a-canonical-question">Many (historical) duplicate questions - how to pick a &quot;canonical&quot; question?</a></p>
<p>I'm not sure they address this case because the examples seem to be short questions with more obvious duplicates.</p>
