My own take on power analyses: I'm good with "we had xx power to detect effects as big as xx" but find "we made a pseudo-random guess about an effect size & determined that we need a sample of N=[some highly specific number]" to be too close to cosplay for me.
Gordon Pennycook
Power After the Results are Known (PARKing) floggingpvalues.blog/2026/03/13/p...
I’ve always liked power analysis. Born of the Neyman-Pearson approach to significance testing, it rests upon a foundation of good measurement, the use of effect sizes, and good planning. It struck …
