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ppsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance

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Use when appraising the credibility of the studies a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) piece synthesizes and calibrating comprehensiveness, balance, and fair treatment of competing camps — including reform-minded but evidence-based critique. Weighs evidence and audits even-handedness; it does not design the spine (ppsych-organizing-framework) or run new analyses.

When to use

• appraising credibility of synthesized studies
• calibrating comprehensiveness and balance
• fair treatment of competing camps
• reform-minded but evidence-based critique
• weighing evidence in evidence matrix
• auditing even-handedness
• reconciling conflicting findings by credibility
• tiering corpus for coverage and selectivity

When not to use

• designing the organizing framework
• running new analyses
• conducting original studies
• meta-analysis with superordinate message

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