BIOL 2000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lab Report, Publication Bias
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Discussion section: summarize your primary results and conclusions, explain why you found what you did, describe the importance and implications of the study. Relatively new approach to testing hypotheses by the aggregation and analysis of research studies. Application to the world is more broad. Not a simple review of the literature. Carefully determine your response variable and what you are testing. Use journal citation search engines to identify and collect relevant studies. Extract relevant data from paper and compile into database. Use standardized metrics to quantitatively analyze results. Compare results to prediction to reach conclusion. Positives: powerful and robust, wide scope, can account for many confounding variables, can be inexpensive. Negatives: uncontrolled variables can be problematic, not feasible for many questions due to lack of information, can be difficult to standardize results among many studies, publication bias. A logically self-consistent framework that explains of a related set of natural or social phenomena.
