In the psychological sciences, it seems like you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
When a phenomenon with a large effect size is demonstrated with tens or hundreds of participants, everybody crows about how the sample size should have been larger.
On the other hand, when a small effect size requires millions of observations to detect, now the criticism is that the effect is too small to matter.
At any rate, this effect is small - but it is reliable. The only crappy part about this study is the ethical boundaries it crossed. In most other ways, this study was kindof amazing...
When a phenomenon with a large effect size is demonstrated with tens or hundreds of participants, everybody crows about how the sample size should have been larger.
On the other hand, when a small effect size requires millions of observations to detect, now the criticism is that the effect is too small to matter.
At any rate, this effect is small - but it is reliable. The only crappy part about this study is the ethical boundaries it crossed. In most other ways, this study was kindof amazing...