The controversy emphasises that psychologists and other social scientists need to do more to combat publication bias, the critics say.

批评者说，这场争论强调心理学家和其他社会科学家需要做更多工作来打击发表偏见。

Second, nudge research is highly susceptible to publication bias—academic journals tend to favour publishing studies that report the largest effect sizes.

其次，助推研究极易受到发表偏倚的影响——学术期刊倾向于支持报告最大效应量的发表研究。

That work did not intend to portray nudges as a silver bullet, he says, and did include caveats about heterogeneity and publication bias.

他说， 这项工作并不打算将助推描绘成灵丹妙药，并且确实包含了关于异质性和发表偏倚的警告。

After using statistical tools to account for the distorting effect of publication bias, the critics point out that the average effect size from the original analysis collapses, to as low as 0.04, which is effectively useless.

在使用统计工具解释发表偏倚的扭曲效应后，批评者指出， 原始分析的平均效应量崩溃了， 低至 0. 04，这实际上是无用的。