I provide a personal perspective on metastudies and emphasize lesser-known benefits. I stress the need for integrative theories to establish commensurability between experiments. I argue that mathematical social scientists should be engaged to develop integrative theories, and that likelihood functions provide a common mathematical framework across experiments. The development of quantitative theories promotes commensurability engineering on a larger scale.

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可通约性工程首先是一种理论练习

我提供了对元研究的个人观点，并强调了鲜为人知的好处。我强调需要综合理论来建立实验之间的可通约性。我认为数学社会科学家应该致力于发展综合理论，而似然函数提供了跨实验的通用数学框架。定量理论的发展促进了更大规模的可通约工程。