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Trakeen t1_j85aa80 wrote

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Probably depends on field? I’ve not typically encountered this and most other researchers are going to be looking at dozens of papers at least so they really don’t want to actually have to dig into a paper to find the meat

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A_Light_Spark t1_j85cy4f wrote

Case in point:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530294/

The title and the abstract are almost disjointed. I come across papers like regularly like maybe 15% of the time?

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starfries t1_j87r1js wrote

I have definitely seen the kind of papers you're talking about, but this one seems fine to me? Granted I skimmed it really quickly but the title says it's a review article and the abstract reflects that.

As an aside: I really like the format I see in bio fields (and maybe others, but this is where I've encountered it) of putting the results before the detailed methodology. It doesn't always make sense for a lot of CS papers where the results are the most boring part (essentially being "it works better") but where it does it leads to a much better paper in my opinion.

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A_Light_Spark t1_j87y33l wrote

True that it's a review, but even reviews tend to draw conclusions, thus the reason for meta analysis.
But yeah, I also prefer to see the results first, no matter how boring.

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starfries t1_j87ypnt wrote

Maybe it's a difference in fields. I rarely see people do meta-analysis in ML so it didn't strike me as odd. Most of the reviews are just "here's what people are trying" with some attempt at categorization. But I see what you mean now, it makes sense that having a meta-analysis is important in medical fields where you want to aggregate studies.

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Trakeen t1_j863a5t wrote

I think in this specific example it is because they didn’t do any experiments. Conclusion in the abstract is rather superfluous (do more research, ya think?)

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A_Light_Spark t1_j8792en wrote

They did find some correlations. This type of meta analysis is not uncommon nowadays but few avoid answering the question as much as this paper.

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