Although the
results of individual studies are always questionable, a range of peer reviewed studies on the effects of small classes have now emerged, and they throw into doubt this advice.
Given that the
authors of the individual studies explored the chosen factors because they were thought likely to be associated with psychological adjustment, it could be considered surprising that most psychosocial factors were not associated with emotional health, or apparently not in this particular clinical context.
AUTHORS» CONCLUSIONS: These findings are equivocal and, although some of the results
of individual studies suggest a positive effect of intercessory prayer, the majority do not and the evidence does not support a recommendation either in favour or against the use of intercessory prayer.
«The Working Group considered that information in the review article and its supplement was insufficient for independent
evaluation of the individual studies and the conclusions reached by the Monsanto scientist and other author,» he added.
Only after the Boundaries Panel completes its final Phase 1 report, which will propose the lineup of IRGs, will officials begin the hard part — drawing the
boundaries of individual study sections within those IRGs and testing the system to see how it would work.
Three factors have contributed to the muddled view regarding the effectiveness of school choice: ideology, the
limitations of individual studies, and flawed prior reviews of the evidence.
If the journalist [s] do not overemphasize the
importance of individual studies, the stories will not get in the paper, and stories on the rising seas will be nowhere in the newspaper.
It's worth reading the whole summary (I've just provided only a very brief summary of a summary of a report which reviews
hundreds of individual studies — anything you want to know more about — just follow it up the chain).
• To secure the position as a special education trainer and bring about positive changes in
lives of individuals studying at XYZ via demonstration of expertise in life coaching, basic learning skills reinforcement and effective parent teacher interaction.
A second method of examining what effect publication bias could have on the meta - analytic results is inspecting the
distribution of each individual study's effect size on the horizontal axis against its sample size, standard error or precision (the reciprocal of the standard error) on the vertical axis.
We have therefore updated our review in an attempt to address these issues, using, insofar as possible, data provided by the
authors of individual studies, to establish with greater precision the strength of the relation between infant feeding and blood cholesterol.
In a comprehensive survey of the litertature on this subject, which I recommend as a short cut to
many of the individual studies and the continent - by - continent details, Craig Idso reaches the following conclusions:
What are we to conclude from
any of these individual studies?
No association was found between 5 - HTTLPR genotype and depression in
any of the individual studies nor in the weighted average (OR, 1.05; 95 % CI, 0.98 - 1.13) and no interaction effect between genotype and stressful life events on depression was observed (OR, 1.01; 95 % CI, 0.94 - 1.10).
The report also summarizes findings from
some of the individual studies contained within the meta - analysis.