Re:A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease
by sliverstorm on Thursday October 22, 2015 @05:53PM
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I do love how counterintuitive sample sizes are. I swear I see the "it's intuitively obvious that 45 people is a comically small sample size, the researcher is an idiot and this is useless!" comments all the time. Then somebody does the math and it turns out p ≈ 0
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Re:A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease
by klodolph on Thursday October 22, 2015 @06:01PM
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Yeah... and then there's the people who benchmark computer programs, don't even bother measuring the test variance, don't know about warming the cache, and post raw timing data online claiming that X is better than Y. Dunning Kruger is a harsh mistress.