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		therealdeal2020 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modi... good thing I have claude to summarize this and quickly realized that sample size was small and nothing much new unless you are a microbiome researcher

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reliablereason 1 day ago [–]

If the effect size is big small sample sizes does not matter as much as otherwise.

You really have to look at the power analysis and the sample size together.

Saying this as a general truth. I am not sure about the power of the method in this papper, i only read the abstract.

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