How to amalgamate scientific evidence for causal claims? A comparison of different approaches to evidence amalgamation and a philosophical analysis of their epistemic status. University of Antwerp
For many causal claims there exist overwhelming amounts of – often discordant – evidence. As a remedy, different approaches for amalgamating such evidence have emerged . Examples are meta-analysis and qualitative reviews. Evidence amalgamation is omnipresent in the empirical sciences, especially in the psychological sciences, the social sciences and the biomedical sciences. It is often deemed the height of objectivity and it has an important ...