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Verde, Pablo E.; Ohmann, Christian – Research Synthesis Methods, 2015
Researchers may have multiple motivations for combining disparate pieces of evidence in a meta-analysis, such as generalizing experimental results or increasing the power to detect an effect that a single study is not able to detect. However, while in meta-analysis, the main question may be simple, the structure of evidence available to answer it…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Bayesian Statistics, Comparative Analysis, Evidence
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Buchanan, Taylor L.; Lohse, Keith R. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2016
We surveyed researchers in the health and exercise sciences to explore different areas and magnitudes of bias in researchers' decision making. Participants were presented with scenarios (testing a central hypothesis with p = 0.06 or p = 0.04) in a random order and surveyed about what they would do in each scenario. Participants showed significant…
Descriptors: Researchers, Attitudes, Statistical Significance, Bias