--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://polmeth.wustl.edu/retrieve.php?id=640 > (PDF file) > > Alan Gerber and Neil Malhotra, "Can political science > literatures be believed? A study of publication bias > in the APSR and the AJPS" >
There's publication bias, and experimenter bias, and I doubt if there's any way to tell the difference. The "file drawer" effect where a null-finding study gets filed away because the researcher wants to find an effect, or maybe simply because the researcher *assumes* that null-finding studies don't get published as often as positive-finding studies, is well known. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
