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Does anyone know what a meta-analysis is?
1 posted on 02/04/2022 8:23:26 AM PST by BenLurkin
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if the narrative don’t fit, we must omit..................


2 posted on 02/04/2022 8:24:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Meta-analysis is a quantitative, formal, epidemiological study design used to systematically assess previous research studies to derive conclusions about that body of research. Outcomes from a meta-analysis may include a more precise estimate of the effect of treatment or risk factor for disease, or other outcomes, than any individual study contributing to the pooled analysis. The examination of variability or heterogeneity in study results is also a critical outcome. The benefits of meta-analysis include a consolidated and quantitative review of a large, and often complex, sometimes apparently conflicting, body of literature. The specification of the outcome and hypotheses that are tested is critical to the conduct of meta-analyses, as is a sensitive literature search. A failure to identify the majority of existing studies can lead to erroneous conclusions; however, there are methods of examining data to identify the potential for studies to be missing; for example, by the use of funnel plots. Rigorously conducted meta-analyses are useful tools in evidence-based medicine. The need to integrate findings from many studies ensures that meta-analytic research is desirable and the large body of research now generated makes the conduct of this research feasible.

In other words, combining various studies.


3 posted on 02/04/2022 8:25:18 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: BenLurkin

Not to mention the new study saying natural immunity is far superior to the jab.


4 posted on 02/04/2022 8:26:11 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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Meta-analysis means the folks look at a really big number of studies:

meta-analysis mĕt″ə-ə-năl′ĭ-sĭs noun

1. The process or technique of synthesizing research results by using various statistical methods to retrieve, select, and combine results from previous separate but related studies.

2. Any systematic procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies.

3. An analysis resulting from combining the results of diverse statistical studies.


6 posted on 02/04/2022 8:27:48 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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Undoubtedly the biggest news of the week - Ignored. I’ll admit the CNN story was sweet, but, seriously...


8 posted on 02/04/2022 8:28:56 AM PST by gloryblaze
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Also being ignored:

On Trumps last day in office, the death count from COVID magically hit the 400,000 milestone. He had "blood on his hands", "did not listen to the science" and had less than 5% of the country vaccinated.

Under Biden, "adults are in charge", "will listen to the science", 70% vaccinated..... 500,000 have died from COVID

9 posted on 02/04/2022 8:30:12 AM PST by Pxzftrnqfrn
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Johns Hopkins, seeking cover. This is the place that hosted the Gates/Fauci Event 201 drill in November of 2019 that was the template for the “pandemic” they launched 2 months later.

Now they are trying to throw others under the bus where they also belong.


10 posted on 02/04/2022 8:30:13 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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Hey I mean that’s not a big news story or anything it’s not like covid has had a significant effect on people’s lives, and the Bidens have a cat.


11 posted on 02/04/2022 8:33:12 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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What’s the mets-anyalsis have to say about the surge of depression & suicide rates because of the lockdowns??


13 posted on 02/04/2022 8:38:16 AM PST by wyokostur
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IF the study had shown that lockdowns WERE effective you can be sure they would have been all over it.

We would have heard... See, see, see. The lockdowns did work!


15 posted on 02/04/2022 8:43:05 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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I’m waiting for a Bee headline saying ‘CNN confirms pedophilia increases covid immunity.’


17 posted on 02/04/2022 8:50:48 AM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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Virtue Soapboxing is more important than science.


18 posted on 02/04/2022 8:52:05 AM PST by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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How long before Johns Hopkins is banned from Twitter and other social media platforms?


19 posted on 02/04/2022 8:53:21 AM PST by Don@VB (Power Corruptsva. )
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Yes, it’s a huge analysis,of many studies compiled together

Rand Paul should take to,the podium and expose the fact that CNN and ilk are refusing to even discuss the study, and point out that the only reason that one woild do that is in an attempt to,cover yp,up, truth and to keep the left’s misinformation going full steam ahead. Play dirty Rand! Throw this right in their faces and force them to address the sisue


20 posted on 02/04/2022 8:53:36 AM PST by Bob434
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When do the various state controlled media *not* march in lockstep? Never.


21 posted on 02/04/2022 8:55:23 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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Does anyone know what a meta-analysis is?

It's an analysis done using the results of other, previously published work as input data. So, it's a multi-study review.

24 posted on 02/04/2022 9:19:11 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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That's not all they're avoiding.

Folks, how did we miss this Deep State/Big Med food fight from last month...

AMA pans CDC's 'confusing' COVID-19 isolation guidance, calls for negative test requirement

26 posted on 02/04/2022 9:31:14 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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Pandemic was introduced to kill off the sick...Lots of sick people have died waiting for room at a hospital...Now they die if unvaccinated....Either way, the progressive scum are wiping out part of the population they hate......


27 posted on 02/04/2022 10:01:51 AM PST by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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Spot on observations that apply to our current situation. Starts at 3:42.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wkX2gklzo


28 posted on 02/04/2022 10:22:52 AM PST by Dragonfly
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Because they're propagandists.
31 posted on 02/04/2022 10:56:31 AM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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