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As far as I can tell the Cochrane meta-analyses are usually of above average quality, pretty honest, don't have particular reason or evidence for bias in any di
by Tenoke 6y ago
As far as I can tell the Cochrane meta-analyses are usually of above average quality, pretty honest, don't have particular reason or evidence for bias in any direction and are conducted fairly well. Do you have any specific examples of problems in their meta-analyses?
- rscho 6y agoFirstly, I have a problem with meta analysis in general and the sheer volume of meta papers tends to drown the Cochrane papers. Additionally, I challenge the judgment calls about honesty of authors, be it the source trial authors or the meta authors. There is a _really_ large interpretation gap between what is written and what really happened depending on how you encode the data into the dataset and the analysis model. I am a clinical researcher. And TBH, I think it's not really possible to conduct truthful and fundamentally believable clinical research given the current social and technological environments of academic research. I'm far from the only one slaving for professors who don't know what they're doing. If I did not have a family to feed, I would not accept doing the work I am doing right now.