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  "path": "/t/significance-versus-hypothesis-testing/28638#post_12",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T12:33:11.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Having enough information to make meaningful decisions is an ethical requirement. Having a sample size calculation is not. The best science is done with sequential knowledge acquisition and no sample size calculation. We know as statisticians that the vast majority of sample size calculations are voodoo. Ethically what is needed is a commitment to ultimately have meaningful information or to abandon an uninformative study (or one with a harmful treatment) as early as possible.",
  "title": "Significance versus hypothesis testing"
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