Small N Designs Represent a Significant Departure from the Kind

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Essay

Small N designs represent a significant departure from the kind of experiments encountered in the text's first 10 chapters. What are the arguments used by advocates of small N designs to defend their choice of research, and it what ways are small N designs criticized by advocates of large N designs?

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