Eli5 why studies with small sample sizes are not inherently useless.

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When two people arguing about a study, I often hear one of them talk about how a study automatically flawed and can’t be trusted. However, studies with small sample sizes regularly appear in meta-analyses. Why aren’t they automatically considered useless?

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TL;DR there are statical tests that can help mitigate the small samplet to a degree.

There are some topics like the one I am working on. Does Bavioral Activation compared to treatment as usual have an affect on PTSD symptoms in veterans with PTSD? Veterans is already a small population and then when you add PTSD it gets even smaller but the results are no less meaningful.

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