James_K comments on Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_K 22 February 2010 05:25:31AM 2 points [-]

I'm an econometrician by training and when I was taught non-parametric testing I was told the minimum sample size to get a useful result was 10. Either the authors of the article had forgotten this, or there is something very wrong with how they were taught this test.