“Just collect more data” is one of the most common responses to uncertainty in quantitative research.
But in a lot of social science, that advice is impossible—or even misleading. Our new working paper asks: when has a study reached its information limit?
Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/so...
“Just collect more data” is one of the most common responses to uncertainty in quantitative research.
But in a lot of social science, that advice is impossible—or even misleading. Our new working paper asks: when has a study reached its information limit?
Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/so...
The punchline is not “stop collecting data.”
It is to evaluate studies relative to what was credibly possible in their empirical setting.
Small or constrained studies are not automatically failed designs. And larger datasets are not automatically more informative.