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		jcranmer on Feb 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Fair Is My D20? (2015) The usual gut reaction for statistical significance is that n*p should be 20, or 20 rolls per face. 100-150 should be statistically significant.

eterm on Feb 26, 2019 [–]

You can't assign significance to a sample size alone.

A sample size of 10 can be significant (if it were 10 1's for example), and a sample size of 100,000 can be not significant, for example if you were to roll 4,953 1's.

dekhn on Feb 26, 2019 | [–]

i believe the op meant "Statistical power"

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