Originally Posted by
prathmann
Still haven't gotten to see the full paper, but if [emphasis mine] (as the wording seemed to imply) the association listed was not something they initially set out to test but only did so after gathering their data and then seeing such an association then it is indeed data dredging as defined in the wikipedia article I cited....
Your
*IF* is not true, so then your dependent clause is not true either. They are not data dredging.
(Now
*IF* they noticed a correlation between explorer, safari, chrome, firefox and opera and injury rates, *AND* published a browser correlation, that would be data dredging. But they did not publish such a correlation (and I don't know if they found any such correlation), so they are not data dredging.)
-mr. bill