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The house of social science research is sadly dilapidated. It is strewn among the scree of a hundred journals and lies about in the unsightly rubble of a million dissertations. Even if it cannot be built into a science, the rubble ought to be sifted and culled for whatever consistency there is in it. (Glass et al., 1981)
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© 2008 David J. Torgerson and Carole J. Torgerson
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Torgerson, D.J., Torgerson, C.J. (2008). Systematic Reviews of Randomised Controlled Trials. In: Designing Randomised Trials in Health, Education and the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583993_16
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