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Re:$5 device accurately tests for breast cancer in under 5 s... by treflop on Friday February 16, 2024 @04:45PM (#39403386)
Elsewhere too

I first took stats in high school and we read a bunch of valid small sample size studies so I don’t know where people are failing to get educated.

There were so many factors going into whether a study was good.

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Re:$5 device accurately tests for breast cancer in under 5 s... by ajb on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:55PM (#39404126)
Exactly.

Famous example: Lady tasting Tea [1]. N=1 or N=8 depending on how you look at it. Still significant.

This is the one that proves that it's possible to tell whether you added the milk first or second.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea

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