A decision
study analysis found that 7 peer assessors were needed to achieve a generalizability coefficient of 0.70.
Not exact matches
The first
analysis looked at 148
studies involving more than 300,000 people and
found that people with social connections had a 50 % lower risk of dying early compared to people who did not have strong social circles.
That
finding comes from an
analysis of more than 100,000 participants in several ongoing
studies.
His
findings feature in textbooks and management training courses, and his debut book, The Procrastination Equation, combines the first meta -
analysis of the topic (encompassing some 800
studies) with original research, including some for which the professor served as his own subject.
But while preliminary
findings from the first 32 cases involved in the
study confirm causality, the researchers said, the true size of the effect will become clear only after full
analysis of all 200 cases and 400 controls.
The
study, titled «Prospect Theory: An
Analysis of Decision under Risk,»
found that loss aversion «expresses the intuition that a loss of $ X is more aversive than a gain of $ X is attractive... for example, most respondents in a sample of undergraduates refused to stake $ 10 on the toss of a coin if they stood to win less than $ 30.»
But the machine - learning
analysis these University of Colorado medical school researchers used
found the opposite result when they looked at red meat consumption among the same Framingham
study participants.
Perhaps most convincing of all, a meta -
analysis of 99 data sets from 95
studies conducted between 1962 - 2011 published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, similarly
found that female leaders were rated by their reports, peers and managers as being just as or even more effective than male leaders.
To date, results from several longitudinal
studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta -
analysis of
studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This
finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.
Our
analysis reviews 30 case
studies in 11 research papers published between 1992 and 2007 that provide estimates of the cost of turnover,
finding that businesses spend about one - fifth of an employee's annual salary to replace that worker.
Sadly, they did not correct their error as they chose to focus on a lopsided and incomplete
analysis of the fees
found in a narrow and select
study of mutual fund IRAs.
Using lifecycle
analysis, a
study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada
found that while all forms of electricity generation have environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.
A recent
study by economic consulting firm
Analysis Group and commissioned by OnDeck, measured the impact of the first $ 3 billion lent by OnDeck to small businesses and
found that these loans have powered $ 11 billion in business activity and created 74,000 jobs nationwide.
Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31
studies of board leadership structure and
finding «little evidence of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta -
analysis of 22 independent samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies with context).
But even a cursory
analysis of the
study's methods makes you wonder why anyone would take such a
finding seriously, let alone order a Quarter Pounder With Cheese to celebrate it, as many newspaper readers no doubt promptly went out and did.
Based on hundreds of quotes for our
study's sample home, we
found that the most expensive city costs 14 % more than the cheapest in our
analysis.
A new meta -
analysis of
studies with 102 samples covering 56,984 firms
finds a small but significant positive relationship on average between employee stock ownership and firm performance.25 The positive relationship holds across firm size and has increased over time, possibly because firms are learning to implement employee stock ownership more effectively.
Editor's note: After Uber's chief economist, Jonathan Hall, publicly criticized the MIT
study's
findings for being based on «inconsistent logic,» its lead co-author acknowledged that the
study's conclusions may be inaccurate and said he plans to run a new
analysis to recalculate drivers» wages.
In one meta -
analysis, 88 % of
studies found that companies that adhered to social or environmental standards showed better operational performance, and 80 % of
studies showed a positive effect on stock price performance.
In fact, most of the tools,
studies, and patterns
found in technical
analysis attempt to identify trends in a variety of ways.
Religion Can Make You Poor In her review of Lisa A. Keister's Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty (February), Naomi Schaefer Riley takes the author to task for the superficiality of her
analysis of her
study's
findings regarding religion's effect on socioeconomic status.
Look at it through microscopes, analyze the printer's ink and the paper,
study it (in that way) as long as you like; you will never
find something over and above all the products of
analysis whereof you can say «This is the poem».
On the other hand, I don't agree with all of Vance's conclusions, but I
find his
study and criticism in «Christianity and War...» to be top notch
analysis.
While formal
analysis opened up a space for the academic
study of religion and art, the project soon sought and
found more congenial theoretical underpinnings in hermeneutics.
But I
studied the article carefully for evidence, rigor, and
analysis, and
found it to be laughably bad.
Political scientists who
study only the Constitution typically claim America's
founding derives from the
analysis of rights and freedoms
found in the Lockean tradition.
It is important to note that Leibowitz extends this line of
analysis even to the
study of the Bible, thus supporting the
findings of modern critical scholarship.
The present
study is too brief to permit any proper
analysis, but we may say that Christian eschatology, understood in this sense, is the product of a marriage of ideas
found in Jewish thought, including the inter-testamental period, and the hellenistic soul - body portrayal of man.
In this case, the British Medical Journal
study is a so - called meta -
analysis of seven previous
studies,
found that those who eat a lot of chocolate have significantly fewer heart and cardiovascular problems than those who do not.
This
study's
findings are consistent with an
analysis commissioned by FDA and updated in 2012, as well as a published ILSI survey of more than 37,000 people which shows that caffeine consumption in the U.S. has remained stable during the most recent period analyzed, while coffee remains the primary source of caffeine in most age groups.
Using response surface
analysis the team
studied the effect of emulsifiers on the eggless cake properties —
finding that the emulsifiers both individually and interactively improved the properties.
This systematic review and meta -
analysis found substantial heterogeneity among
studies of non-fermented and fermented milk consumption and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
Additional meta -
analysis studies corroborated these
findings, showing that higher Kona consumption (2 — 4 cups per day) was associated with a reduced risk of death by all disease causes.
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study at the University of Tampa -LSB
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A recent
analysis of the Longitudinal
Study of Australian Children (LSAC)
found that, in fathers, a higher parenting self - efficacy score was related to lower work - family strain; and a key mechanism by which fathers» work / family strain was decreased was by their doing more than they regarded as their «fair share» of child rearing tasks.
In British Columbia, in a longitudinal
study which partly controlled for fathers» mental health outcomes, multivariate
analysis found adverse employment experiences among fathers strongly associated with their sons» attempted / completed suicide later, and with elevated odds for daughters» attempted suicide (Ostry et al, 2006).
However, a recent
study that used a more sophisticated
analysis found that it was not breastfeeding, but socioeconomic conditions, that contributed to differences in health outcomes.
Performing a «meta -
analysis» of data from 14
studies published between 1999 and 2012, researchers at Cinncinati Children's Hospital
found a 72 % risk reduction in female athletes under 18 years old versus a risk reduction of only 16 % for those over age 18.
Analysis of the British Cohort (1970)
Study (BCS70)
found that 80 % of boys born in 1970 who became fathers in their teens have lived with their child at some point in time.
Most
studies of homebirth in other countries have
found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent
study in the United States showed poorer neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta -
analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England
study, 43 the largest prospective cohort
study on place of birth for women at low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.
Robert Larzelere, associate professor of human development and family science at Oklahoma State University, conducted a meta -
analysis of 26
studies on the subject, and
found that, overall, spanking seemed more effective than 10 of 13 alternative disciplinary methods for getting a child to behave or do as asked.
In the most recent meta -
analysis of published
studies, Robert Carpenter and colleagues
found that the risk of SIDS increases dramatically for young babies when their mothers have consumed 2 units or more of alcohol in the previous 24 hours.
If you read the scientific and medical literature, the controversy about bed sharing safety primarily concerns babies less than 20 weeks old, and the most recent meta -
analysis of published
studies found no evidence of increased risk for babies over 3 months of age (Carpenter et al 2013).
A
study of perceived insufficient milk
found that women with a high BMI were more likely to experience an earlier onset of «insufficient milk» (p < 0.05), but this was not significant in multivariate survival
analysis [56].
A 2005 meta -
analysis of six randomized control trials (the gold standard for medical
studies)
found that nipple stimulation increases the likelihood of labor.
Where systematic reviews or meta -
analyses are available, allowing
analysis of
findings from a number of well - selected
studies, these obviously provide a stronger evidence base on which it is possible to base arguments with greater conviction.
A secondary
analysis of data from the prospective observational Birthplace in England
study found that immersion was associated with significant reductions in antepartum transfers to hospitals for planned home births, freestanding midwifery unit births, and alongside midwifery unit births (2).
In a secondary
analysis of a multicenter randomized
study of fetal pulse oximetry, of 4,126 nulliparous women who reached the second stage of labor, none of the following neonatal outcomes was
found to be related to the duration of the second stage, which in some cases was 5 hours or more: 5 - minute Apgar score of less than 4, umbilical artery pH less than 7.0, intubation in the delivery room, need for admission to the neonatal intensive care unit, or neonatal sepsis (27).
40 % reduction in the number of children under - 5 who are stunted Direct evidence for a link between exclusive breastfeeding and stunting is not currently available at the systematic review level, though a 2015 systematic review and meta -
analysis of intervention
studies assessing the effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions on child growth
found no significant effect on length or height z scores.
Without links to actual
studies, I
find it difficult to digest someone's arguments that appear to be more like ranting and bullying (I'm referring to Dr T's posts, not your above one) than proper
analyses of scientific research.