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ArticleNature2019

Better methods can't make up for mediocre theory.

Paul Smaldino

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Article in Nature, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Shifting the Level of Selection in Science.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024
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  5. The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research.European journal of epidemiology · 2023
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  7. On the Role of Theory and Modeling in Neuroscience.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  11. Strategic identity signaling in heterogeneous networks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  12. Review
  13. The natural selection of good science.Nature human behaviour · 2021
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  15. Practical Methodological Reform Needs Good Theory.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021
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  16. Invisible Hands and Fine Calipers: A Call to Use Formal Theory as a Toolkit for Theory Construction.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021
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  17. Theory Before the Test: How to Build High-Verisimilitude Explanatory Theories in Psychological Science.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021
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  18. Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Paul Smaldino

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Registered trials

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