Episode
Andrew Gelman on Social Science, Small Samples, and the Garden of the Forking Paths
EconTalk · Mar 20, 2017 · 1 h 08 min
Statistician, blogger, and author Andrew Gelman of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges facing psychologists and economists when using small samples. On the surface, finding statistically significant results in a small sample would seem to be extremely impressive and would make one even more confident that a larger sample would find even stronger…