To be fair, they're not exactly wrong. Worth repeating with N=10,100,... until we get a robust conclusion, but as it is, there's not much to go on in this one
Exactly. We're not researchers and many of us will internalize the finding without the proper confidence weighting. I wish reporting and HN had a higher standard for studies linked on the site with higher N and ideally some independent replications.
If the results is really interesting and novel then why aren't others racing to replicate it? Because it is not. Yet we're reporting it here with N=1.
If the results is really interesting and novel then why aren't others racing to replicate it? Because it is not. Yet we're reporting it here with N=1.