Douglas_Knight comments on N-back news: Jaeggi 2011, or, is there a psychologist/statistician in the house? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 17 June 2011 04:10:40AM 1 point [-]

I said "spend kids," so the cost of acquiring them is irrelevant. I'm sure they're expensive, so I keep them fixed. If there were half as many studies each with twice as many subjects, they would be much more valuable. But they wouldn't be publishable, because they'd all have negative results.