The problem is noise, not N: why increasing the sample size isn’t all that.

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

The problem is noise, not N: why increasing the sample size isn’t all that.

Someone was talking with me about the problem with lots of published social science research that’s based on small sample sizes. And I agree that this is a problem! But I think the real problem is noise, not N. Noise …

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