In "A Job Picture Painted With Different Brushes" (Business Day, Aug. 7), you observe that it is possible to reach different conclusions on the same subject depending on the survey used to collect data.
This appears to make him as much an adherent of the PSR as Parmenides who, as we have seen, argues for his conclusions on the same basis.
A comparison of Cochrane reviews versus industry-supported meta-analyses showed that the latter came to more favourable conclusions on the same drugs [ 66].
According to Silveira and Santos (2004), study design, the chosen indicator of antenatal adequacy, and data sources and analyses can impact study results and lead to different conclusions on the same issue, making study comparison difficult [ 40].
Meta-analyses can come to opposite conclusions on the same data set, e.g. with respect to the direction of the effects of the number of study visits on the placebo effect size [ 9, 10], but this may be due to data extraction errors that lead to false findings and conclusions [ 11].
They are then required to weigh each set of evidence against the others, to determine which best supports a given conclusion (in the example, which cause is the most likely one for pellagra), and to report on their confidence in this conclusion, as well as on the likelihood that someone else would be able to draw a different, valid conclusion based on the same evidence.
And this smart, cool-headed film, which has a "Rashomon -like vision of the case, pRashomon -likeurbing picture of courtroom justice and how different people come to opposite conclusions, based on the same testimony.
Looking at the second set of three columns, we come to the same conclusions based on the same criteria.
Ad-hoc approaches that are commonly used to handle time to event outcomes with mortality can give disparate results and provide conflicting conclusions based on the same data.
