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>absent either P hacking or positive bias you would still expect the abstract to contain the selected highlights (i.e. positive findings) from the paper.

Sure, provided that the reported p-values for positive findings have been corrected appropriately for any multiple comparisons. Abstracts should summarise but not mislead...




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