Re:“Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked”: John Ioannid...
by Jedd on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:14AM
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> Lay bare all the raw data and let the software developers ...
Really can't tell if you're being sarcastic here, even in the context of HN.
> Meta studies are pretty worthless in my opinion. Primary studies in all fields should be forced to be published with open data ...
And until that happens meta studies are both worthwhile and one of the most effective ways to correlate and sensibly interpret the existing published data sets.
This is not a stupid question. Many meta studies are done by people with their own frameworks of deciding what is and isn't a legitimate approach to studying something. Unsurprisingly, their findings are overwhelmingly negative due to their own publication bias.
Meta studies are pretty worthless in my opinion. Primary studies in all fields should be forced to be published with open data, and any study that received - directly or indirectly - more than $1 from the public taxpayer should be forced to publish Open Access.
Lay bare all the raw data and let the software developers and data analysts get after it, not so-called expert meta reviewers.