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The Effects of Talus Control Foot Orthoses in Children with Flexible Flatfoot.
So Young Ahn, MD, MS, Soo Kyung Bok, MD, PhD, Bong Ok Kim, MD, PhD, In Sik Park, MS, BS(Pod, CPed)
Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association: January 2017, Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 46-53.

 

FFS! JAPMA is on fire this month with letting stuff through the editorial and peer review process. Pretty every paper published in current volume should NOT have passed the peer review and editorial process. This has become an ongoing systemic problem at JAPMA.
The above one used a within groups analysis rather than a between groups (that is something of a speciality at JAPMA) and did multiple inappropriate comparisons.

 

Craig: can you please expand to know what you mean by this? Taking a cursory look, the study compares outcome between RFO and TCFO.

 

They used the wrong analysis. JAPMA's peer review and editorial process let it through AGAIN!
This is what they did wrong: http://www.itsafootcaptain.com/with...ta-and-the-way-too-many-studies-get-it-wrong/

They also did multiple comparisons. The more comparisons that you do, the more likely you will find a result by chance, so you need to adjust the acceptable p value lower than 0.05. They did not do that. Its called a Bonferroni adjustment or correction. Again, the peer review and editorial process should have picked up on that.

(Pretty much every study in the latest JAPMA should not have been published for flaws in the analysis - JAPMA has become that hopeless)

 

Master of analysis ... thank you. I have a 'hunch' that JAPMA 'peer reviewers' are ill-trained in research statistical analysis and therefor ill-equipped to make such an analysis. I am assuming you reported the mistake to the Editor?

 

No. I have tried in the past. I have given up on that. They do not listen and do not get it.
I have even resorted to things like this: http://www.itsafootcaptain.com/japma-lets-us-down-again-shock-wave-for-mortons-neuroma/ <-- have a read about this and what I said about ethics.

 

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