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Ya, descent article; well explained points.
You might post it on Rosemary's research site as well.
Thanks Robin for the suggestion and thanks Kim for posting this.
I've still to read it since I've been up to my eyes with work, but when I do I'll comment on it. Plus I know I'm going to have to read it 3 times since it usually takes that before it sinks in!
Statistics is one of those things that probably most therapists aren't that interested in or drawn to. I think we've a habit of just keeping with the wordy part and not looking at the stats and it's another one of those areas where we trust what we're being told in the stats.
In one way it's easy to pull the wool over someone's eyes if they're not statistically literate, but the thing that I wonder about is how they can slip by a peer review. With the written part there may be omissions in the documentation with conforms and biases that might be hard to find, but with the stats? I would have thought that it would have been hard for it to get flaws past a review (if it's a good review).
Kim, since you're studying this cool stuff, are you finding that there's a huge percentage of flaws in the statistical analysis to the degree that you nearly have to presume that there will be flaws when you're critiquing studies? Or am I being a pessimist here?
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