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Aug 30 2025

A One-Page Primer on: Statistical Power

Carlisle Rainey

“Of course, investigators could not have known how underpowered their research was, as their training had not prepared them to know anything about power, let alone how to use it in research planning. One might think that after 1969, when I published my power handbook that made power analysis as...

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Aug 18 2025

For Your Syllabus: Statistical Power

Carlisle Rainey

As you prepare your courses on quantitative methods, consider including a section on statistical power. Here are five readings I like and often recommend. Quantitative Political Science Research is Greatly Underpowered (Arel-Bundock et al.) This paper shows that low power is a real problem—“doing...

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