The effect is typical of hypothesis tests.

Consider the situation where you toss a coin 10 times
and get 60% heads. Would you worry that the coin was biased?

Now toss a coin 10,000 times. If you get 60% heads, you might
worry (I sure would!) that the coin may be biased.

At different sample sizes you get the same effect size but
different test statistics -
as n gets smaller, the average size of (say) a z-statistic
gets smaller for a given effect size.

Glen
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