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Impact of optional stopping on false-positive rates in a t-test. The solid grey line shows the nominal α-level of 5%. (a) False-positive rates dependent on step size and maximum sample size. Minimum sample size is fixed to N = 5. Step size indicates how many participants were added in a batch. (b) False-positive rates dependent on step size and minimum sample size. Maximum sample size is fixed to N = 300.
