Suppose you read a psychology article, and the introduction informs you that the article will use a meta-analysis to review the research in a particular field. You would expect that the authors of the article will
a. describe the history of research in that area.
b. decide whether the overall difference is significant, based on a tally of the previous research.
c. use a statistical method to integrate the results from the appropriate studies in that area.
d. describe a statistical analysis similar to a correlation coefficient.
Question 2
Suppose you read a psychology article, and the introduction informs you that the article will take a box-score approach to reviewing the research on some aspect of gender comparisons. You would expect that the authors of the article will
a. list the pros and cons of different interpretations of the data.
b. decide whether the overall difference is large, based on a tally of the outcomes of many previous studies.
c. use a statistical method to integrate the available studies in that area.
d. describe a statistical analysis similar to a correlation coefficient.
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