ArticleBehavior research methods2024
How Many Participants? How Many Trials? Maximizing the Power of Reaction Time Studies.
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Abstract
Due to limitations in the resources available for carrying out reaction time (RT) experiments, researchers often have to choose between testing relatively few participants with relatively many trials each or testing relatively many participants with relatively few trials each. To compare the experimental power that would be obtained under each of these options, I simulated virtual experiments using subsets of participants and trials from eight large real RT datasets examining 19 experimental effects. The simulations compared designs using the first
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