Only 35% of German-language articles, compared with 62% of English-language articles, reported significant (p < 0.05) differences in the main endpoint between study and control groups (p = 0.002 by McNemar’s test)
And that’s Germans, for whom it is piss easy to learn English (compared to Russians, Chinese, or Japanese).
Why did you omit the part where a third of the sample was published in both English and German, and hence weakens the bias? (That is comparable to the overlap for Chinese & English publications.)
The study was looking at English texts, not Russian, Chinese, or Japanese texts.
edit: a study on foreign language bias in German speaking countries.
And that’s Germans, for whom it is piss easy to learn English (compared to Russians, Chinese, or Japanese).
Why did you omit the part where a third of the sample was published in both English and German, and hence weakens the bias? (That is comparable to the overlap for Chinese & English publications.)