Lenth (2001) – Guidelines for effective sample size determination

No doubt that presents a very informative paper on why and how to define sample sizes. I recommend reading section 7 ‘Avoid Retrospective Planning’. An interesting insight involves his sentence concerning the idea that to obtain statistical significance, while ignoring scientific meaning, it is just asterisk hunting! Important for those supervisors and examiners of PhD dissertations that recommend to increase data collection in order to achieve scientific breakthroughs.

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About the scientific method

I received this link about a program radio from BBC 4. It is interesting conversation on the scientific method. They began discussing on Bacon’s contributions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b1ljm

Something that might be interesting to read from K. Popper (1953) “Science: Conjectures and refutations”. http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rarneson/Courses/popperphil1.pdf