against publication selection. Even if a literature is dominated by large and unknown misspecification biases, precision …-effect testing and joint precision-effect/meta-significance testing can provide viable strategies for detecting genuine empirical … on precision (1/Se) and the unadjusted average effect. …

the process, the critical importance of precision (the inverse of an estimate’s standard error) as a measure of a study …’s quality is brought to light. Reviewers and journal editors should use precision as one objective measure of a study’s quality. …