tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048425.post2649440256666719851..comments2023-11-02T15:32:15.417+00:00Comments on Bluematter.: Most research findings are falseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048425.post-62419642319358736042007-09-18T14:52:00.000+00:002007-09-18T14:52:00.000+00:00"The five factors above do increase the probabilit..."The five factors above do increase the probability that a published finding is wrong, but they also increase the probability the results will be taken with a pinch of salt."<BR/><BR/>Yet lots of very influential research in economics is based on small samples and produces highly influential results. E.g. in a lot of the literature on economic growth the sample size is a cross section of country growth rates, which is a starting sample under 100 once you knock out sub-Saharan Africa and countries dependent primarily on resource extraction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com