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ArticleNature2021

Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods.

Bret Beheim, Quentin D Atkinson, Joseph Bulbulia, Will Gervais, Russell D Gray, Joseph Henrich, Martin Lang, M Willis Monroe, Michael Muthukrishna, Ara Norenzayan and 5 more

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Bret BeheimDepartment of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. bret_beheim@eva.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4653-3155
Quentin D AtkinsonSchool of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8499-7535
Joseph BulbuliaSchool of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Will GervaisCentre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK.
Russell D GrayDepartment of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9858-0191
Joseph HenrichDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5012-0065
Martin LangLEVYNA: Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
M Willis MonroeDepartment of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9126-2991
Michael MuthukrishnaDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7079-5166
Ara NorenzayanDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Benjamin Grant PurzyckiDepartment of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9595-7360
Azim ShariffDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4444-460X
Edward SlingerlandDepartment of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Rachel SpicerDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2807-8796
Aiyana K WillardCentre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID34234331

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