How science takes stock : the story of meta-analysis /

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Policymakers, medical practitioners, and the public alike face a bewildering flood of new and often contradictory scientific studies on almost every topic. Does psychotherapy work, and if so what form works best? Does federal spending on education improve student performance? Whatever the issue, the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hunt, Morton M., 1920-2016 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1997]
Subjects:
Science > Methodology.
Science > Miscellanea.
Meta-analysis.
Science > methods
Behavioral Sciences > methods
Meta-Analysis as Topic
Sciences > Méthodologie.
Sciences > Miscellanées.
Méta-analyse.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
Science > Miscellanea
Meta-analysis
Science
Science > Methodology
Naturwissenschaften
Methode
Metaanalyse
Forschungsergebnis
Politische Entscheidung
Ambiguität
Meta-analyse.
Trivia and miscellanea
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Making order of scientific chaos
  • Settling doubts about psychotherapy
  • Clarifying murky issues in education
  • "Who shall decide, when doctors disagree?"
  • Firming up the shaky social sciences
  • Lighting the way for makers of social policy
  • Epilogue: the future of meta-analysis.

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