Category: Meta Analysis

This is the third post in a series (.htm) in which we argue/show that meta-analytic means are often meaningless, because they often (1) include invalid tests of the hypothesis of interest to the meta-analyst and (2) combine incommensurate results. The meta-analysis we discuss here explores how dishonesty differs across four different experimental paradigms (e.g., coin…

This post is the second in a series (.htm) in which we argue that meta-analytic means are often meaningless, because these averages (1) include invalid tests of the meta-analytic research question, and (2) aggregate incommensurable results. In each post we showcase examples of (1) and (2) in a different published meta-analysis. We seek out meta-analyses…

This post is the second in a series (see its introduction: htm) arguing that meta-analytic means are often meaningless, because (1) they include results from invalid tests of the research question of interest to the meta-analyst, and (2) they average across fundamentally incommensurable results. In this post we focus primarily on problem (2), though problem…

This post is an introduction to a series of posts about meta-analysis [1]. We think that many, perhaps most, meta-analyses in the behavioral sciences are invalid. In this introductory post, we make that case with arguments. In subsequent posts, we will make that case by presenting examples taken from published meta-analyses. We have recently written…