Evolution & Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
PLoS Biol. 2024 Apr 11;22(4):e3002456. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002456. eCollection 2024 Apr.
A recent article claimed that researchers need not increase the overall sample size for a study that includes both sexes. This Formal Comment points out that that study assumed two sexes to have the same variance, and explains why this is a unrealistic assumption.
最近的一篇文章声称,对于同时包含男性和女性的研究,研究人员不必增加总体样本量。本正式评论指出,该研究假设两种性别具有相同的方差,并解释了为什么这是一个不切实际的假设。