1 study with too small a sample size to even make the findings significantly significant is shoddy evidence. 100 such studies is (probably) good evidence.
Second example:
For example, 100 people saying “Um… yes, often it does” would not sway me a jot.
It should (unless all 100 people are known to be fools.)
1 study with too small a sample size to even make the findings significantly significant is shoddy evidence. 100 such studies is (probably) good evidence.
That isn’t an actual example, and there are many more ways of being shoddy than merely a limited sample size.
It should (unless all 100 people are known to be fools.)
This presumes explicitly that they are not, and tacitly that they are all independent, have not all come to the same conclusion for the same bad reasons. These are very substantial presumptions and need substantial justification to make such a meta-analysis worth anything at all. The presumption that one would have to be a “fool” to be wrong about something is just rhetorical spin.
100 pieces of crap is still just a pile of crap, however you spin it.
1 study with too small a sample size to even make the findings significantly significant is shoddy evidence. 100 such studies is (probably) good evidence.
Second example:
It should (unless all 100 people are known to be fools.)
That isn’t an actual example, and there are many more ways of being shoddy than merely a limited sample size.
This presumes explicitly that they are not, and tacitly that they are all independent, have not all come to the same conclusion for the same bad reasons. These are very substantial presumptions and need substantial justification to make such a meta-analysis worth anything at all. The presumption that one would have to be a “fool” to be wrong about something is just rhetorical spin.
100 pieces of crap is still just a pile of crap, however you spin it.
“Give me an example! … Ha! Your example isn’t a fully general enumeration of the entire class… Fooled you!!”
Your example wasn’t an example at all, just a made-up scenario of many small pieces of evidence adding up to large evidence. You originally said
(emphasis mine.) When asked to back that up, you just made stuff up.