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by riccardopa 1537 days ago
N=35,178. Give us a break, its too small of a study to make any conclusion.
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Jokes on you, nothing is concluded.

"Our results suggest [...] these results lay the foundation for future research"

Its the classic do an easy little study, and suggest that the potential for results might point to further studies. Now you have something to tell your research coordinator next time they get in your hair.

We should just have an HN bot that posts these comments if N<1000 or paper.includes(/rats|mice/) for people to upvote.
Wait until HNers find out that n = 10 can be more significant than n = 100 via power analysis.
Are toxoplasma-infected scientists more likely to shill for Big Toxoplasma?
Note that the 35,178 in this comment is actually a list, aka in python: [35, 178], and not the number 35,178 -- which would of course be a large enough sample size to make some observations.
/s?
35 infected, 178 uninfected. The comma is misleading. A slash or semicolon might be better.
Its more than misleading

There's no space after the comma and the commenter is putting two values in a single variable which normal holds an integer