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I have struggled with spelling for most of my life and occasionally I still pronounce words incorrectly. (For about four Harry Potter books, I pronounced Hermione ‘Hermy-one’ in my head, instead of ‘Her-my-oh-knee’, for example.) So every time I see the word ‘incongruous’, I tend to get slight shivers of spelling test related fear.

It is, however, a very good work to describe the findings of many folks when they start to look at research in an area. There are a small number of studies that seem to give a strikingly different answer to others... they are incongruous.

This finding should lead to examining why there are differences of answer appearing. Is it that one study is overwhelmingly large, and the others represent smaller, publication-biased estimates? Is one using a completely different comparator treatment or dose? Perhaps their outcome measurement is of a much lower (or higher) quality?

Incongruity in the...

from Archives of Disease in Childhood current issue http://ift.tt/2obaeR3