Week 8 - Other Designs And Best Research

Question 1

Most important evidence is a meta-analysis - top of the hierarchy
True or false

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Reviews: evidence synthesis:
3 main types of reviews:

Answer 2

Narrative - literature is selected by authors - written by experts - authors can cherry-pick the literature

Systematic - written relative to a very specific research aim - final product represents all published studies relative to the specific research aim

Scoping - sits between narrative and systematic review - good approach if there isnt a huge amount of work in a specific area - larger scope/broader - identifies knowledge gaps and clarifying concepts

Question 3

HARKing is:

Answer 3

hypothesizing after the results are known

Question 4

p hacking is:

Answer 4

misuse of data to get significant results.