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

95 Post author: PhilGoetz 29 March 2010 06:09PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 31 March 2010 03:50:30PM *  5 points [-]

So you're doing a meta-analysis to show that meta-analysis doesn't work?

If your thesis is correct, you should also be able to show that meta-analysis does work, by judicious choice of meta-analyses. Which means that there should be some good meta-analyses out there!