title: Methodological issues in meta-analyzing standard deviations: Comment on Bond and DePaulo (2008).
abstract: In this comment on C. F. Bond and B. M. DePaulo, the authors raise methodological concerns about the approach used to analyze the data. The authors suggest further refinement of the procedures used, and they compare the approach taken by Bond and DePaulo with standard methods for meta-analysis.
authors.affiliation: School of Education, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. tpigott@luc.edu
authors.forename: Therese D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Pigott
authors.forename: Meng-Jia
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D008192:Deception; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D015588:Observer Variation; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012919:Social Behavior