Talk:metabias

RFV discussion: March 2024

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metabias

Created by SemperBlotto. I cannot find it on SpringerLink, PLOS One or DeGruyter. There is one with a different meaning on GoogleBooks after Rokeach 1979 (“[…] attitudes are biases while values are metabiases […]”) Fay Freak (talk) 14:55, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Google scholar has more than a hundred hits here, includng citations. And more for spaced and hyphenated forms. publication bias is an example of a metabias, as is reporting bias and selection bias. Both STATA and R have modules or commands called metabias, references to which would not count for attestation IMHO. This search] (14 results) attempts to exclude "STATA" and "R". I don't have access to full text for most of the articles. DCDuring (talk) 16:24, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

I have added three cites for the term, but the wording of the definition could probably be improved. It would also help if we could add hyponyms. DCDuring (talk) 16:45, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

@DCDuring: Thanks. I just wanted to say this. The definition is hardly a definition, it does not tell me what the bias consists in. Fay Freak (talk) 16:46, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

I have removed the definition of the cited word since it misleads people into assuming they have obtained some kind of actual thought from reading the dictionary for this word, and the {{rfdef}} definition request and empty definition increases the chances of someone adding the explanation. Fay Freak (talk) 17:08, 16 March 2024 (UTC)