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fail-safe N: a standalone construct

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Research methods

the number of unpublished null studies that would be needed to bring a meta-analytic result to nonsignificance.

In research methods, fail-safe N refers to the number of unpublished null studies that would be needed to bring a meta-analytic result to nonsignificance. This meaning comes from Rosenthal (1979) in Psychological Bulletin.[1]

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References

  1. Rosenthal, R. (1979). The file drawer problem and tolerance for null results. Psychological Bulletin, 86(3), 638-641. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.86.3.638

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