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> To my mind, the most hackable flaw is that the number of subjects in the study is a term in the denominator of the p-value calculation. Any study with a suffi
by JamesBarney 7y ago
> To my mind, the most hackable flaw is that the number of subjects in the study is a term in the denominator of the p-value calculation. Any study with a sufficiently large sample will find "significance" with p<.05, but it won't be meaningful.
Just to clarify. Any study with a sufficiently large sample will find a real effect even if the effect isn't clinically significant.