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n = 85 and p < 0.01. What's inherently wrong with that? (I have my own personal crusade against the 5% p-value, but this is under 1%.) I agree that the sample
by pflats 14y ago
n = 85 and p < 0.01. What's inherently wrong with that? (I have my own personal crusade against the 5% p-value, but this is under 1%.)
I agree that the sample size is far too small to criticize individual states, but 85 seems plenty large for the hypothesis of "Atheist-branded packages sent by the USPS are being delayed more than normal packages."
- yummyfajitas 14y agoHow did you compute a p value without knowing the variance? [Edit: my bad, didn't read the fine print which explains statistical methods at very bottom of page.]
- maxerickson 14y agoIn this case, I imagine the method involves reading it from one of the images towards the bottom of the linked page.
- AtheistBerlin 14y agoIn fact n= 178, which is more than enough for a study with only 2 conditions.
- pflats 14y agoI misread your post when I re-skimmed it, and ignored the 2 shoes thing. Whoops. Thanks!