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I'd also like to chime in on "effect size matters". After all, you don't need particularly large N to conclude that decapitation is going to be fatal.
by esyir 5y ago
I'd also like to chime in on "effect size matters". After all, you don't need particularly large N to conclude that decapitation is going to be fatal.
- mlyle 5y agoYes--- Small n studies are often the most exciting. If you get a p<0.01 effect in 10 people vs. 10000 people... the lower bound of the effect size is similar, and so for the same prior each study should change our belief by a similar amount... but the upper bound of effect size is much larger in the large study. The only thing that messes this logic of mine up a bit is publication bias. There's a much larger chance that small studies sit on the shelf unpublished if there's no clear effect.