The second proposal has implications for methods development and application studies. Our results demonstrate that the relationship between 𝑛 and 𝑘 is an essential scientific control variable to eliminate confounding factors for a study. One way to control for the design size would be to keep 𝑛 and 𝑘 consistent across designs while using a similar planning method. Conversely, a study could account for differences in statistical certainty using 𝑛 ln(𝑛) scaling of the edge count.