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I wish psychology researchers would organize bigger experiments more. Instead of 1000 sample sizes of 20, why not have one sample size of 20000? Less personal g
by exporectomy 5y ago
I wish psychology researchers would organize bigger experiments more. Instead of 1000 sample sizes of 20, why not have one sample size of 20000? Less personal glory, and more hard management work, no doubt, but the preponderance of small studies seems like a huge waste.
- glial 5y agoMost psychology work is done in universities with limited funding. Hiring the staff to run a study with 20,000 people is prohibitively expensive for any lab. Some alternatives exist - for example, some studies can be run on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Tom Griffiths using this to good effect. (& I did the same for my dissertation)