Robert Rosenthal’s research while affiliated with Harvard University and other places

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The ‘File Drawer’ Problem and Tolerance for Null Results
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May 1979

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Psychological Bulletin

Robert Rosenthal

For any given research area, one cannot tell how many studies have been conducted but never reported. The extreme view of the "file drawer problem" is that journals are filled with the 5% of the studies that show Type I errors, while the file drawers are filled with the 95% of the studies that show nonsignificant results. Quantitative procedures for computing the tolerance for filed and future null results are reported and illustrated, and the implications are discussed. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

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... The fail-safe N test suggests that 1031.00 missing studies were required to conclude that the results of the study were significant (p = 0.000). The present results are supported by the findings of a previous study (Rosenthal, 1979a). Calculation of the number of missing studies was possible in the meta-analysis to determine whether P was significant. ...

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Prevalence of feline panleukopenia (FPL) in domestic cats: A systematic meta-analysis
The ‘File Drawer’ Problem and Tolerance for Null Results

Psychological Bulletin

Robert Rosenthal