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Just as a bad film can boost its audience with a famous actor, so can a scientifically weak study from a bigwig attract attention from big journals.
A survey is a relatively weak study design.
Just as a weak study design can sabotage one's publication options, so can weak statistical inference.
Although these studies consistently show an association between arsenic exposure and diabetes mellitus, the weak study designs of cross-sectional or case-control, the use of glucosuria or diabetes death as diagnostic criteria and the lack of adjustment for possible confounders in some studies, are major limitations that may reduce the strength of the evidence.
However, many promising interventions have not been evaluated properly or were tested using weak study designs.
Taken into account the weak study designs, no strong conclusions can be drawn.
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Instead, people often rely on weak studies that get repeated ad infinitum.
The field is plagued by small, weak studies that are hard to turn into statistically robust conclusions.
Green activists often cherry-pick data from weak studies, behaving more like politicians than scientists.We need high-yield farming to save land, feed people and eliminate rural poverty in the developing world.
For example, do we include methodologically weak studies if they are conceptual rich?
For results of quality assessment of methodologically weak studies [ 12- 81], see Appendix B (additional file 2).
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