Commentary: Continuously cumulating meta-analysis and replicability

Commentary: Continuously cumulating meta-analysis and replicability

Citation: Perezgonzalez JD (2015) Commentary: Continuously cumulating meta-analysis and replicability. Front. Psychol. 6:565. A commentary on Continuously cumulating meta-analysis and replicability Braver et al. (2014) article was published by Perspectives on Psychological Science as part of a special issue on advancing psychology toward a cumulative science. The article contributes to such adv...

Continuously Cumulating Meta-Analysis and Replicability.

The current crisis in scientific psychology about whether our findings are irreproducible was presaged years ago by Tversky and Kahneman (1971), who noted that even sophisticated researchers believe in the fallacious Law of Small Numbers-erroneous intuitions about how imprecisely sample data reflect population phenomena. Combined with the low power of most current work, this often leads to the ...

Replicability and meta-analysis in systematic reviews for medical research

In order to assess the effect of a health care intervention, it is useful to look at an ensemble of relevant studies. The Cochrane Collaboration’s admirable goal is to provide systematic reviews of all relevant clinical studies, in order to establish whether or not there is a conclusive evidence about a specific intervention. This is done mainly by conducting a meta-analysis: a statistical synt...

Commentary: Heart rate variability and self-control–A meta-analysis

In relation to the paper “Heart rate variability and self-control: a meta-analysis,” we have recommendations that may be of importance when considering future research on HRV and self-control. The following commentary will cover three main points which consist of: (1) a systematic use of the terms “vagal/parasympathetic” instead of heart rate variability (HRV), as vagal tone is the real physiol...

Meta-analysis and commentary: Preemptive correction of arteriovenous access stenosis.