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I do love how counterintuitive sample sizes are. I swear I see the "it's intuitively obvious that 45 people is a comically small sample size, the researcher is
by sliverstorm 11y ago
I do love how counterintuitive sample sizes are. I swear I see the "it's intuitively obvious that 45 people is a comically small sample size, the researcher is an idiot and this is useless!" comments all the time. Then somebody does the math and it turns out p ≈ 0
- klodolph 11y agoYeah... and then there's the people who benchmark computer programs, don't even bother measuring the test variance, don't know about warming the cache, and post raw timing data online claiming that X is better than Y. Dunning Kruger is a harsh mistress.