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"It's a small study" -- likely to be dominated by noise rather than effects.
by satya71 7y ago
"It's a small study" -- likely to be dominated by noise rather than effects.
- BurningFrog 7y agoThere is also a selection effect where small studies with boring results don't get articles written.
- unishark 7y agoAbsolutely it's called publication bias. Also studies who's results challenge the prevailing bias are much less likely to get published. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...