Meta-Analysis: Cumulating Research Findings across Studies

Abstract

Meta-analysis is a way of synthesizing previous research on a subject in order to assess what has already been learned, and even to derive new conclusions from the mass of already researched data. In the opinion of many social scientists, it offers hope for a truly cumulative social scientific knowledge.

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Organizational behaviorPsychologySocial psychology

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Year: 1984
Type: article
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
Pages: 165-165
Citations: 1215
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                                    Jack M. Feldman, 
                                
                                    John E. Hunter, 
                                
                                    Frank L. Schmidt
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1984). 
                            Meta-Analysis: Cumulating Research Findings across Studies. 
                            Academy of Management Review
                            , 9
                            (1)
                            , 165-165.
                            https://doi.org/10.2307/258247
                        

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DOI: 10.2307/258247