Kaj_Sotala comments on Even if you have a nail, not all hammers are the same - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 30 March 2010 12:18:45PM *  5 points [-]

I, too, would like to hear more about the problems of meta-analysis in general. So far it's naively seemed to me that they'd be more reliable than isolated studies, because they pool a larger amount of results and thus reduce the effect of chance / possible flaws or artifacts in the individual studies.