Sentence examples for poor studies from inspiring English sources

In order to avoid that poor studies receive false credibility, readers need to evaluate the quality of the methods.

We did not make a register of the very poor studies that attempted to infer population prevalence from patient samples, although there were examples of this.

As Stanley ([2001]) argues, "The most important strength of meta-analysis is that it moves literature reviews away from casual judgments about "good" studies that deserve attention and "poor" studies that should be set aside, and instead provides a replicable statistical framework for summarizing and interpreting the full range of evidence".

Methodological quality of our sample was poor; studies met roughly half of the applied criteria (mean ± sd, 54.7±18.4%).

The pretentiously named medical literature is shot through with poor studies.

Good reporting cannot make up for poor study design; however, it can facilitate the identification of poor studies.

My poor study habits were killing me.

Most scientific papers are wrong, thanks to poor study designs, author biases, small sample sizes and other problems.

"It was usually not lack of ability," Kaplan writes, "but poor study habits, inadequate instruction or a combination of the two that jeopardized students' performance".

Seeking to build the perspectives and opinions of poor people into policies and programmes is common nowadays, at least in theory; the World Bank's excellent Voices of the Poor study in 2000 is a good example.

For example a gold standard study (in the jargon of medical research, a randomised, controlled trial) would be given an A* rating and high weight and a poor study is graded as "must try harder" and given a low weight.