Meta-analysis is presently experiencing a revolution in methodology and scope, making many of our past meta-analyses obsolete.
Previously, a single column of effect sizes may have been sufficient, but today journals expect full correlation matrices and multiple moderators, based on a scientific base that has often quadrupled in size since the last major update.
Reviewed here are how new methods, including machine learning, are making this massive enterprise manageable, with entire fields being rapidly captured by a few institutions.
Furthermore, the evolution of these meta-analytic techniques is extrapolated, with several imminent outcomes that will reshape not only science but the fundamentals of society itself. Essentially, we are well on the way towards building an exterior decision-making system, an exocortex, that replaces or augments our own.
About the speaker
Professor Piers Steel is a professor in the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources area and is the Brookfield Research Chair at the Haskayne School of Business. He is a recognized authority on the science of motivation and is known internationally for his productivity research. He has expertise in systematic review and meta-analysis, having published over 25 scholarly articles on the topic, and is a recipient of the George A. Miller Award, given to the top article across all of psychology in the last three years. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, and the American Psychological Society.
About the FOWI Academy series
The Future of Work Institute (FOWI Academy) is an informal program of learning, designed for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) within the domains of Management, Organisational Psychology and Organisational Behaviour. People from other disciplines and all career stages are welcome to join at any stage.
