Douglas_Knight comments on Open Thread, April 27-May 4, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 13 May 2014 06:53:50AM 0 points [-]

doing a frequentist meta-analysis you'd count a study that got a p=0.1 result as evidence against

No. The most basic version of meta-analysis is, roughly, that if you have two p=0.1 studies, the combined conclusion is p=0.01.