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Criticism: high studies that are precision studies are not the same as high-precision studies (hyphen missing from compound modifier)
Criticism: low studies that are precision studies are not the same as low-precision studies (hyphen missing from compound modifier)
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== Criticism ==
The funnel plot is not without problems.
If high-precision studies are different from low -precision studies with respect to [[effect size]] (e.g., due to different populations examined) a funnel plot may give a wrong impression of publication bias.<ref>{{Cite journal
| author = Joseph Lau, [[John P. A. Ioannidis]], Norma Terrin, Christopher H. Schmid & [[Ingram Olkin]]
| title = The case of the misleading funnel plot