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by rayiner 17 days ago
> More so than every other field?

Not every other field, but a lot of them. The entire field is fundamentally based on drawing conclusions from too small N. You don’t see anthropology papers that read like this: “We found a bunch of stuff all in the same dig site. What does it mean? We don’t know because it’s definitionally not a representative sample. Fund us to dig in 10 more sites across the country and maybe we’ll be able to say more.”