Just a reminder that "[x]% of studies are positive!" is a totally meaningless statement that you should usually distrust
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As a non-epidemiologist (but one who has a great deal of respect for them)... what do you mean by a “positive” study? Does that mean something specific? Or do you just mean it’s legit/good?
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I'm not sure, but I guess "positive" means the study found some positive effect of a drug, or something similar.
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I was so lucky to have learned meta-analysis from Gene Glass about 16 years ago. On the question of how to select studies to include, Gene would say: "I include the ones I judge to be above contempt and exclude the ones below contempt."
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I tell my critical thinking students that no amount of bad evidence is ever worth as much as a single piece of good evidence. (Usually in context of anecdotal cures vs. controlled studies.)
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