Andrew White 🐦‍⬛ @andrew.diffuse.one · Sep 14

Here's one measuring the frequency of sample sizes. Like how often people use 8 samples vs 12 samples for reporting research results. N=2 is apparently the most popular 2/3

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Truth · Sep 14

2 is not a large enough sample size, and 10 is barely large enough. Perhaps your count captured a phrase like: '2 samples out of the 500 exhibited....'

Andrew White 🐦‍⬛ · Sep 14

You can also look at it over time. Here's relatively popularity of different animal models in research over time. Anyway, found this to be interesting. More details about it here: diffuse.one/p/d2-003 3/3