The article fingers journals and grant makers, but it ignores the historical issues with collecting data in the social sciences: generating lots of data points

The article fingers journals and grant makers, but it ignores the historical issues with collecting data in the social sciences: generating lots of data points is time-consuming and expensive. In linguistics, getting a simple word count used to require hiring an extremely skilled worker to read a book and tally words. In psychology experiments, you have to recruit each participant and run them through an often elaborate deception. However, technology (especially Amazon Turk) makes these excuses irrelevant. Even with in-person experiments, you can generally automate a large part of the administration and scoring of the task. There is no excuse for small sample sizes anymore.