Maybe the real reason that small sample sizes don't tell you anything is because there's tons of small samples in the world, and the particular one you're looki

Maybe the real reason that small sample sizes don't tell you anything is because there's tons of small samples in the world, and the particular one you're looking at has almost certainly been selected for unusualness. It's a multiple comparison problem that you don't know is a multiple comparison problem because you yourself didn't do the comparisons. You just got the result of them.