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While it is sometimes true that larger sample sizes can overcome many insufficiencies in the data I don’t think that is the case here. The data is still noisy a
by ImaCake 5y ago
While it is sometimes true that larger sample sizes can overcome many insufficiencies in the data I don’t think that is the case here. The data is still noisy and any attempt at statistics here would result in a non-significant result. The authors appear to be drawing their conclusions based on a lack of statistical significance. This is a basic fallacy, you can’t say something is not there because your data is too crap to see it. There are statistical tests that determine if something is not different from zero, the authors did not use those tests.
- necovek 5y agoI have't looked that deep into results of this particular study (hopefully peer reviews will do that: it would be unmanageable to look at everything) — but that was not the GP's complaint, but rather that conditions of each region have not been taken into account, and I am saying that this is fine if numbers are sufficiently large and statistically relevant. You may be right that they are not, and hopefully that results in the paper being retracted.