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throwfaraway135yesterday at 4:57 PM1 replyview on HN

> Also did you notice that the numbers in your quote don’t even agree? In parentheses the numbers are out of 41, not 336.

I agree that it's at least sloppy.

> The final results were from a survey, not a study where they trialed Super Mario games on students and followed their progress.

afaik a study can consist of one single survey

> This is not a serious paper.

Maybe, maybe not, my only point was about the sample size which was surprising if you read only the top part.


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gs17yesterday at 7:17 PM

> afaik a study can consist of one single survey

It definitely can (and they had interviews too), although there's a lot of limitations with their methodology they don't address in the paper.