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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by jdietrich on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @12:39PM (#45117845)
Most studies don't replicate. Unless a study is exceptionally large and rigorous, your expectation should be that it won't replicate.
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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by sarchertech on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @11:05PM (#45123056)
That isn’t correct it has to do with the likelihood that the study produced an effect that was actually just random chance. Both the sample size and the effect size are equally important.

This study showed an enormous effect size for some effects, so large that there is a 99.9% chance that it’s a real effect.

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