The article fingers journals and grant makers, but it ignores the historical issues with collecting data in the social sciences: generating lots of data points is time-consuming and expensive.<p>In linguistics, getting a simple word count used to require hiring an extremely skilled worker to read a book and tally words. In psychology experiments, you have to recruit each participant and run them through an often elaborate deception.<p>However, technology (especially Amazon Turk) makes these excuses irrelevant. Even with in-person experiments, you can generally automate a large part of the administration and scoring of the task. There is no excuse for small sample sizes anymore.