Sory to be unclear. Your proposition was that those experienced in methodology would recognize as a red flag if the size of the effect in continuous outcomes decreases with increasing sample size. Again this seems to me to be an illogical assumption when you are dealing with living rather than material populations. In living populations, continuous outcomes would be expected to change if the same population was used continuously, certainly, and possibly even if they were different members of the same pool, because of the feedback of repetition. ANd in conscious systems, I can certainly see where an increasing sample size might reduce the impact of the test conditions on the individual member of the population. Both of these are issues in how awarenss responds to experience, which is certainly very differently than dead particles do (if there is such a thing).

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