What test can make it significant? Can't remove a sample.
control1 control2 control3 treat1 treat2 treat3
0 0 0 0 5 6
meaninglessTest <- function(x) {
return(sum(x[4:6]) - sum(x[1:3]) > 0)
}
That is a meaningless test that will return true that there's a difference. No proper statistical test will be significant for that comparison with only 3 samples. Your goal is also not to show there's a difference, but rather to see if there is one.
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Data dredging (also data fishing, data snooping, data butchery, and 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. This is done by performing many statistical tests on the data and only reporting those that come back with significant results.[1]