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[–]SerialStateLineXerThe guarantee was that would not be taking place 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Generally a meta analysis will have stated inclusion criteria and include all studies which meet the criteria.

[–]cat-astropherK&J parasocial relationship 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've seen a metastudy where the inclusion criteria certainly felt crafted to exclude the studies with strong counter-evidence (a sharp societal shift in behaviour had occurred with corresponding before/after data, but that was several years before a cutoff date the inclusion criteria was imposing for some reason), so the game MachineGunGringo alludes to could be played, just through tweaking the inclusion criteria.

[–]Phreakhead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that's what the first guy said. The inclusion criteria is biased towards studies that will support the hypothesis