If that's the reason for including the study, then it was a bad study to choose to replicate, as it would be clearly not replicable for students of other cultur

If that's the reason for including the study, then it was a bad study to choose to replicate, as it would be clearly not replicable for students of other cultures - in which case, the meta-study researchers are stacking the deck; they would be guilty of the very thing they're decrying.