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uchatoday at 1:01 PM1 replyview on HN

n=56 doesn't give you much information regarding the margin of error, unless you practice Tarot Reader's cat science. The standard deviation of outcomes and the difference between both outcomes matter just as much.

If I flip a coin 56 times and it always falls on head, I can be pretty much certain that it's not a fair coin. I wouldn't need to flip it 1000 times. We are all someone else's "know-nothing hack"...


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laborcontracttoday at 2:05 PM

also, “this is study is flawed because n=56, here’s my n=1” is hilarious