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Exercise scientist and stats maven. Practicing safe science since 2017. Ph.D. in exercise science but always a student. #Rstats #OpenScience
Sep 11, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read
Okay, so my pre morning coffee joke is getting WAY more attention than I expected. I seem to have struct a popular cord, but I want to be clear that there are *plenty* of high quality meta-analyses that published all the time. However, let me detail what we can do better. THREAD! 1. There are guidelines for reporting meta-analyses. Most of the reviews I get don't include these checklists that really rubs me the wrong way. Take the time and report your meta-analysis correctly.

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Oct 4, 2019 13 tweets 7 min read
So, yesterday we, @avigotsky and @TenanATC, put up a preprint about a new statistics technique in sport and exercise science. Today, I want to expand upon my thoughts and why I think it is emblematic of a greater problem in our field.
THREAD.
I am always skeptical of techniques to determine if “responders” exist. First, if you believe there is a physiological reason for responders then you should design an experiment to measure that heterogeneity (e.g., cross-over replicate HT @stephensenn doi.org/10.1177/096228…).