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 simulati...

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Main Authors: Dick J Bierman, James P Spottiswoode, Aron Bijl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4856278?pdf=render