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As much as people are harping on the fact that the study is N=1, the reality is that these researchers have 133 scans over 133 consecutive days, which is impres
by lukeinator42 2y ago
As much as people are harping on the fact that the study is N=1, the reality is that these researchers have 133 scans over 133 consecutive days, which is impressive.
I think naysayers are missing the point that increasing statistical power through repeated measures over long periods of time rather than just increasing N is totally valid. This is honestly probably a better approach than running more participants across fewer scans for an initial longitudinal fMRI study (e.g. I think this is more compelling than if a study were to run 10 people with only weekly scans).
- Gormo 2y agoEven if the 133 scans reveal an interesting pattern, it's still an interesting pattern that's only thus far been observed in a single individual. That means it's still not meaningfully generalization, and ought to be studied further before conclusions are published.