Suggest HN: Studies based on small sample sizes shouldn't be on HN
Reading about studies based on small sample sizes has in total misinformed me. I've been convinced of many surprising things based on a trust that the research was well conducted, and that published results are on average true. The building replication crisis has shown that this faith was misplaced, particularly in certain fields. For instance, it's now clear that I would have believed more true things and fewer false things if I had not heard about a single result from social psychology. I'm still rooting out beliefs that I came to based on bad research. (Unfortunately my mind doesn't maintain an index of beliefs by source. I wish I could request this feature.) I'm rightly bitter about this, and I see the problem continuing. For instance, this submission is worse than worthless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13144483 . It's impossible
Why it failed
Reading about studies based on small sample sizes has in total misinformed me. I've been convinced of many surprising things based on a trust that the research was well conducted, and that published results are on average true. The building replication crisis has shown that
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- syllogism
- Ended
- 2016
- Source
- hackernews