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Lack of reliability - the study findings could not be repeated in numerous follow-up studies of hundreds of thousands of children<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"74a12975-7b07-4b13-a40b-d8e4bb7024ea","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Reliability"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

Lack of validity - the 2011 paper from the British Medical Journal reported that only one child from the 1998 study had autism (Deer, 2011).<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"66c25a9f-ad36-4ac5-86ec-a41378d83c09","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Validity"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

Andrew Wakefield was being paid by a law firm to find problems with vaccines, to establish the basis for lawsuits.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"66caad6e-3205-4e6d-a255-259a57006c5e","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Bias"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

The researchers relied on the parents' perceptions of when the children's symptoms developed. The perceptions were not checked for accuracy.<\/p>\n\n

Data was fabricated.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"cd06ded1-0266-4b24-954f-97f4b1b9c210","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Researcher control"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

Quantitiative studies usally have larger numbers of participants. It is very difficult to generalize findings from a sample of 8, to the population.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"59bfabc2-d5a2-4ca1-a13c-89f59f77ca81","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Generalizability"}],"hTag":"h2"}

Critiquing research articles

Jennifer Innis