(May 10, 2023 at 3:53 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(May 10, 2023 at 3:51 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: If you mean to say Gary Kleck's study has too small sample size... Do you reject the entire comparative linguistics then? Because there are only 5'000 languages out there, so no comparative linguistics study can have a sample size larger than 5'000.
My bad, I didn't know this was the comparative linguistics thread, I thought it was about a mass shooting in belgrade. You've already informed me, as our resident science authority, that the field is only as good as this study, so..yeah, I guess we'd have to reject the whole thing? Who are we to argue with your conclusion? We did this shit pages ago...?
Wanna talk about mass shooters?
My point is, if you reject the Gary Kleck's study on the grounds that it has a too small sample size, what justification do you have for accepting mainstream comparative linguistics and mainstream linguistic typology and the scientific consensus of other fields where a study with a larger sample size is impossible?
