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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">To celebrate the release of its new website, the MetaLab team with support of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (<a href="http://bitss.org/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#3a88fe" class="">BITSS</font></span></a>)
is organizing a challenge for authors of meta-analyses on cognitive development. This challenge will offer a total of $3,000 US in cash prizes to authors who contribute their meta-analysis data to the <a href="http://metalab.stanford.edu/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#3a88fe" class="">MetaLab</font></span></a></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(74, 134, 232);"> </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">database. </span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The conditions for the challenge are the following:</span></div>
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<li class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The meta-analysis should be on a topic relating to cognitive development, and contain data on infants and children up to 4 years old.
It can be published or not.</span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Data contributed must follow the <a href="http://metalab.stanford.edu/tutorials.html#Code_Existing_MA" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#3a88fe" class="">MetaLab
format</font></span></a> to be eligible. If submission occurs before 30/03/2018, the MetaLab team can check and advise submitters.</span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The final contribution must occur before 30/06/2018.</span></li></ul>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Three prizes of $1,000 US will be awarded to the top contributions, determined by the number of correctly filled cells in MetaLab
format. Double points will be awarded to those submissions that provide full documentation (all additional MetaLab spreadsheets including<font color="#3a88fe" class=""> <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mtN4g6FddpBljQzrR-mS0y414M9wQNjK4Vz09nLOe2s/edit#gid=0" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">search
protocol</span></a></font>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12Y_2BcFSu48t0F8a_xrY1Ro2fJoCIV1h8O627WNcrjY/edit#gid=1931065704" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#3a88fe" class="">codebook</font></span></a> for
all fields, and a <a href="http://prisma-statement.org/prismastatement/flowdiagram.aspx" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#3a88fe" class="">PRISMA flowchart</font></span></a>, here is a <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DKY8BTZZ82bGyGwpGsyyzsilOqE1F1NcDLTKWtCe9AY/edit#slide=id.p" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#3a88fe" class="">template</font></span></a>).
This rule might be of particular interest to those who work with a small number of eligible papers and thus potentially have fewer cells. </span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">And beyond the cash prize, adding your meta-analysis to MetaLab can have several advantages both for you (more visibility for you
and your meta-analysis), and the community (gaining a clearer view of the broader developmental picture). For more information, please read our <a href="http://metalab.stanford.edu/tutorials.html" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#3a88fe" class="">tutorials</font></span></a> and
our <a href="http://metalab.stanford.edu/documentation.html" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#3a88fe" class="">documentation</font></span></a>.</span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">If you wish to participate and have the possibility to modify your submission, please sign-up <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpgHVRy3zN-hbVq_yvndBeHSg1Q1pu87bP_c_xLAswLkJcrQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#3a88fe" class="">here</font></span></a> before
30/03/2018. </span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">Cécile Issard</div>
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<div class="">MetaLab data Manager</div>
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