[matthewdgreen]

We constantly see small medical studies (<100 participants) posted here on HN that produce exciting results, which then disappear from view and/or fall apart when replicated with larger cohorts.

[pessimizer]

If that didn't happen, it would mean that math was broken. That's how statistics is supposed to work.

[llamaimperative]

How is this different from science working?

[kjkjadksj]

When it happens in the hard sciences its science working, when it happens in the soft sciences its a replication crisis.

[llamaimperative]

Haha that seems to be the case!