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Meta-Analysis Errors; Motivation and Behavior Change

The Stronger By Science Podcast

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How Did Almoroth, Wright, and Carl Pearson Hate Statistics?

In the early 1900s, statisticians Almoroth Wright and Carl Pearson had a big beef over statistics. They were arguing about how to analyze data for an upcoming typhoid vaccine. A meta analysis is only as good as the calculations being done and the underlying data. If you have great data and you use a really heavy handed or erroneous approach,. you're also not going to get great information from it.

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