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Wheat From Chaff: Meta-Analysis As Quantitative Literature Review

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AuthorsT. D. Stanley
JournalThe Journal of Economic Perspectives
Year2001
DOI10.1257/jep.15.3.131
Citations958

TL;DR

Meta-analysis is a powerful statistical method that combines and analyzes results from many independent scientific studies, providing clearer, more reliable insights and greater statistical power than individual studies, which is crucial for identifying robust findings to guide your personal experiments.

What they tested

This paper doesn't test a specific intervention or treatment on people. Instead, it serves as a conceptual essay and review that explains, advocates for, and illustrates the methodology of **meta-

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