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Re:Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than ... by SubiculumCode on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:09PM (#29400215)
reproducibility in social sciences is usually a function of a)insurmountable costs of recruiting participants, b)complexity of the questions, and c) lack of standardization of humans. Sure social scientists would like to have N=1 billion, but they'd be lucky to get funding for 1,000.
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Re:Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than ... by UnFleshedOne on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @12:49AM (#29401099)
One of the problems is that the humans used were pretty standard -- all psychology students. Also publication bias.
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Re:Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than ... by SubiculumCode on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:52AM (#29402576)
can't win. If your sample isn't diverse enough it isn't representative. It it is representative, its likely too small to get a reliable effect due to the number of confounds.
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