Peer Review Uncovers Errors in Human Information Processing: But Who Is Making Them?
Peer review is supposed to uncover errors in manuscripts. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it provides a rather nice demonstration of the errors humans make while trying to find errors in other people’s work.
I recently submitted a manuscript on publication-bias detection in meta-analysis. The central empirical result was simple: tests of publication bias often have low power when effects are heterogeneous and model assumptions are violated. Consequently, a nonsignificant test for publication bias should not be interpreted as evidence that publication bias is absent. The paper therefore…
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