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Impact of Consistent Methodological Flaws

When examining a body of research, confidence in a conclusion is undermined if all the supporting studies share the same methodological flaw. For instance, if multiple studies supporting a claim are all correlational and suffer from the third-variable and directionality problems, the consistent results might merely be an artifact of that shared flaw rather than reflecting a true phenomenon.

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Updated 2026-05-03

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