[irishcoffee]

> We saw this effect in a small study, so it's worth doing a larger study.

That never happens.

[godelski]

That doesn't change the meaning.

Reading it wrong tends to make that happen too. Since people read it as fact they end up arguing "why fund a more expensive study to show the same thing?"

A lot of this stems from not understanding how science actually works. How there's never proof, only confidence bounds