Observational insights highlight low reporting standards in meta-analyses, suggesting improvements are crucial.
I have no idea how many people take the effort to reproduce a meta-analysis in their spare time. What I do know, based on my personal experiences of the last week, is that A) it’s too much work to reproduce a meta-analysis, primarily due to low reporting standards, and B) we need to raise the bar when doing meta-analyses.
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Daniël Lakens (2014) studied this question.
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