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51 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 987 Reliability and Agreement in Measurement papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • A necessidade de melhorar a segurança do diagnóstico laboratorial - A falta de estudos sobre os erros técnicos e limitações metodológicas em exames laboratoriais

    ERROS TÉCNICOS E LIMITAÇÕES METODOLÓGICAS EM EXAMES LABORATORIAIS: ANÁLISE CIENTÍFICA DA GOTA ESPESSA, TESTE DE WIDAL E HEMOGRAMA · 2026 · DOI

  • The study faced challenges in collecting qualitative data from both groups. The study had a limited sample size.

    Die Wirkung des multimodalen Feedbacks auf die Schreibfertigkeit von Deutschlernenden · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of consideration of validity in qualitative sociology. The need for a systematic approach to establishing the validity of intensive interview data.

    The Adequacy of Intensive Interview Data: Preliminary Suggestions for the Measurement of Validity <sup>*</sup> · 1983 · DOI

  • Previous reports have shown low reviewer reliability for other journals. There is a need to examine the interrater agreement of reviewers for Developmental Review. The study aims to address the gap in the literature on the reliability of peer review.

    Interrater agreement for reviews for Developmental Review · 1983 · DOI

  • Future research might be devoted to the importance of observation or the amount of standardization necessary. The study of the reliability of judgements in other contexts, such as performance appraisal, could be valuable.

    Inter‐rater reliability of judgements of functional levels and skill requirements of jobs based on written task statements · 1983 · DOI

  • The reliability of judgements in content validation research is critical, but has not been well studied. The importance of standardization of language in job descriptions has not been well considered.

    Inter‐rater reliability of judgements of functional levels and skill requirements of jobs based on written task statements · 1983 · DOI

  • The paper does not provide a comprehensive review of all qualitative methods. The study is limited to a metropolitan area in upstate New York.

    The Adequacy of Intensive Interview Data: Preliminary Suggestions for the Measurement of Validity <sup>*</sup> · 1983 · DOI

  • is interesting 1978), but current data do not support the utility of reviewing. and

    Interrater agreement for reviews for Developmental Review · 1983 · DOI

  • The need for further consideration to strengthen the instrument's interpretability and clinical utility. The risk of circular reasoning in the validation strategy.

    Validation and interpretation of the Pediatric Asthma Treatment Burden Questionnaire: methodological considerations · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper suggests exploring the use of LLMs as a first-pass assessment, flagging trials or domains for focused human expert scrutiny. It proposes a workflow where LLMs are used in conjunction with human assessors. The study highlights the need for careful evaluation and validation of LLMs in evidence synthesis.

    Five methodological considerations for validating LLMs in risk of bias assessment · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the evaluation of LLMs in risk of bias assessment. It highlights the need for a coordinated approach to LLM evaluation, including standardized benchmarks and mechanisms for continuous evaluation. The study notes that the rapid evolution of LLMs threatens the temporal validity of single-point assessments.

    Five methodological considerations for validating LLMs in risk of bias assessment · 2026 · DOI

  • The need for accurate ICC estimates for secondary analyses. The limitations of prior methods for estimating ICC values.

    Meta-analytic pooling of intraclass correlation coefficient estimates · 2026 · DOI

  • The use of published Cochrane RoB 2 judgments as a reference standard has limitations. The LLM received limited information compared to human reviewers. The study did not test a human-in-the-loop or semiautomated approach.

    Response to: Five methodological considerations for validating LLMs in risk of bias assessment · 2026 · DOI

  • The limitations of using published Cochrane RoB 2 judgments as a reference standard. The need for approaches that support reproducibility and continuous reassessments.

    Response to: Five methodological considerations for validating LLMs in risk of bias assessment · 2026 · DOI

  • The sample size is limited. Qualitative data was only collected from the experimental group. The study has some limitations that need to be addressed in future research.

    Die Wirkung des multimodalen Feedbacks auf die Schreibfertigkeit von Deutschlernenden · 2026 · DOI

  • This article has reframed reliability as a theorem rather than an assumption of CTT. By situating reliability within the geometry of Hilbert space, the analysis demon- strates that the true score is the orthogonal projection of the observed score onto the as subspace Rel(X ) = Var ½E(X j G)(cid:2)=Var (X ), quantifies the efficiency of this projection and uni- fies several statistical concepts—regression R2, factor communality, and predictive accuracy—under a single operator-theoretic framework. variable. Reliability, expressed defined latent the by Conceptually, this reformulation clarifies that reliability is not an empirical artifact of a specific test or model but a mathematical property of expectation and variance in L2. This geometric perspective highlights that the decomposition X = T + E is not an assumption about data but a theorem about orthogonal projections. Consequently,

    Reliability as Projection in Operator-Theoretic Test Theory: Conditional Expectation, Hilbert Space Geometry, and Implications for Psychometric Practice · 2025 · DOI

  • Despite the importance of interrater reliability assessments to ensure research quality, to the best of our knowledge there is no guideline to date specifying how they should be conducted to avoid potentially detrimental effects of ‘coders’ degrees of freedom’ (CDF) and ‘questionable coder practices’ (QCP).

    BRAVO – a workflow for improving rating reliability in behavioural research · 2025 · DOI

  • Evaluation of information given in the three articles on housing of the animals (35% identical answers) and preconditions or pretreatments (42%) varied widely.

    Inter-observer Agreement on a Checklist to Evaluate Scientific Publications in the Field of Animal Reproduction · 2012 · DOI

  • On the usual assumptions--that D was generated by a Poisson process and that E is based on such large numbers that it can be taken as without error--the long established, but apparently little known, link between the Poisson and chi 2 distributions provides both an exact test of significance and expressions for obtaining exact (1-alpha) confidence limits on the SMR.

    Simple exact analysis of the standardised mortality ratio. · 1984 · DOI

  • 1. OD evaluation must be scrutinized more closely and criticized for its weaknesses by others in the field, particularly by the journals that publish the case studies such as those cited. With a professional im- petus to make rigorous evaluation designs part of the many reports of organizational innovation and change, the standing of OD in the scien- tific community will be improved and the body of cumulative knowl- edge needed for OD will be increased. 2. OD practitioners must be encouraged to share failures as well as successes so that such failures can be analyzed and can contribute to knowledge in the field and to increased effectiveness of OD. 3. Rival hypotheses must be tested to learn their association with observed results. Until such hypotheses are checked, it remains mere speculation in many circumstances whether the OD intervention is responsible for the change attributed to it.

    Evaluation in OD: A Review and an Assessment · 1978 · DOI

  • Although confidence in EEG interpretation has not been previously examined, high confidence and overconfidence are common psycholo- gies in clinical medicine [1,2].

    Evaluation of History of Mathematics Materials. · 1978 · DOI

  • Future research should examine the effect of different types of feedback on the performance of subjects. Future research should examine the use of different types of payoff on the performance of subjects. Future research should examine the application of the findings to real-world decision making scenarios.

    The evaluation of individual and aggregated subjective probability distributions · 1976 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the evaluation of individual and aggregated subjective probability distributions. The paper identifies a need for a comparison of the use of Bayes' theorem and likelihoods to direct estimation of posterior probabilities.

    The evaluation of individual and aggregated subjective probability distributions · 1976 · DOI

  • ) Evidence of this lack of agreement among the students is the fact the greatest percentage who agree on any single cri- terion ("co-operative thinking") is 67.

    Rating discussants · 1956 · DOI

  • Further evaluation of the methods proposed in the literature. Investigation of the application of the study's findings to other areas of research.

    Meta-analytic pooling of intraclass correlation coefficient estimates · 2026 · DOI

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