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We really need to say more than just "N = 32". If you're tossing coins, and the treatment group gets 16 heads, that's a significant result. Not saying that's
by erehweb 12y ago
We really need to say more than just "N = 32". If you're tossing coins, and the treatment group gets 16 heads, that's a significant result. Not saying that's the case for this particular study, but general point is that N = 32 is not enough to dismiss a study out of hand.
- pc2g4d 12y agoYou'd have a stronger point if this study was an experimental intervention with binary outcomes. However, what this study was actually doing was fishing for correlations between various blood factors and depression. Thus the small sample size greatly increases the chance that some factor will "just happen" to be more likely in the 32 depressed patients than in the 32 non-depressed ones. So I stand by "N = 32" as a valid critique of the study.