Agreed, this doesn't pass the sniff test at all. Makes me think of this article[1]: > Your estimate will be wrong for a silly, almost tautological reason: if y

Agreed, this doesn't pass the sniff test at all. Makes me think of this article[1]: > Your estimate will be wrong for a silly, almost tautological reason: if you can only detect large effects, then any effect you detect will be large. If you keep looking for an effect, over and over again, until finally one study gets lucky and sees it, that study will almost necessarily give a wild overestimate of the effect size. [1]: https://jaydaigle.net/blog/replication-crisis-math/ https://jaydaigle.net/blog/replication-crisis-math/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30181696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30181696