> This amounted to 51 studies, 75 independent participant samples, and over 36,500 participant observations. The researchers then tallied the correlations betwe

> This amounted to 51 studies, 75 independent participant samples, and over 36,500 participant observations. The researchers then tallied the correlations between these measures. Meta analysis can be interesting if done well, but a lot of the time it simply reinforces the publication bias / bottom drawer effect, and people who create meta studies are unlikely to closely examine the quality of each individual study. I intuitively agree with the conclusion but the study itself looks like GIGO