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Indiscriminate Data Aggregations in Meta-Analysis

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  • David Lopez-Lee

    (University of Southern California)

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Whether you are a policy maker or social scientist, you are slowly being drowned in a sea of often inconsistent research data. Proponents of meta-analysis claim that such data can be objectively and usefully summarized for you. The author notes how the assumptions of the meta-analytic model preclude the synthesis of experimental data (which has a clear cause-and-effect logic) with quasi-experimental and/or nonexperimental data (both of which lack such clarity). Yet in the author’s review of 64 recent meta-analytic articles, 11 were found to improperly make such aggregations. Why? The author shows how the guidance provided by the leading proponents of meta-analysis either blurs the distinction or is misleading.

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  • David Lopez-Lee, 2002. "Indiscriminate Data Aggregations in Meta-Analysis," Evaluation Review, , vol. 26(5), pages 520-544, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:26:y:2002:i:5:p:520-544
    DOI: 10.1177/019384102236522
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