Testing for Questionable Research Practices in a Meta-Analysis: An Example from Experimental Parapsychology
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Testing for Questionable Research Practices in a Meta-Analysis: An Example from Experimental Parapsychology.
We describe a method of quantifying the effect of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) on the results of meta-analyses. As an example we simulated a meta-analysis of a controversial telepathy protocol to assess the extent to which these experimental results could be explained by QRPs. Our simulations used the same numbers of studies and trials as the original meta-analysis and the frequencies...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153049