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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Larger Sample Size Did Not Correlate with Higher Replicability

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Methodology

  • Xingyu Li
    Stanford University
  • Jiting Liu
    Stanford University
  • Pufan Huang
    Stanford University
  • Geoffrey Cohen
    Stanford University

Abstract

We drew data from three papers published by Many Labs, an initiative that sought to directly replicate 57 psychological effects across 181 samples. We found that the original sample size (ranging from N = 27 to N = 2,646) did not correlate with whether its effect was replicated or not.

Reproducibility