Basing a conclusion on a statistically significant sample size almost always leads to a proper conclusion, but not in this case.
One conclusion emerging from the research, says Irving Kirsch, a professor at Harvard Medical School who wrote the preface to the volume, is that the effect is strongest for those disorders that are predominantly mental and subjective, a conclusion backed by a meta-analysis of placebo studies that was carried out in 2010 by researchers at the Cochrane Collaboration, an organisation that reviews evidence for medical treatments.
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The duel makes a fitting conclusion to a pop epic that has spread itself through J.
It was a riveting conclusion to a week filled with some awkward moments.
Certainly it was a safer conclusion for a juror than voting for a conviction and risking his own neck in retaliation.
He called for a swift conclusion to a current ambulance service review.
Victory over United at the Luzhniki Stadium in the city that Abramovich considers his home would provide a triumphant conclusion to a difficult season.
But it is a foregone conclusion without a new arena.
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Ilia Dichev and Troy Janes reach a similar conclusion from a study of 100 years of American share prices, and at least 15 years' data in each of 24 other countries.
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life, " she said in the speech, explaining how she thinks life experiences can influence judicial rulings.
This leads to a very different conclusion from a single 873, 000 data point.
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The fundamental difficulty remains: a labored lead opinion that looks like a conclusion struggling for a rationale.
He countered such attacks vehemently, saying such a conclusion rested on a slanted reading of what he had said on the subject.
Donald Norman has found site visitors have a natural process when they come to a conclusion about how a site makes them feel.
The report stated: "Members were unable to reach a conclusion as to a likely candidate for the conflicting aircraft and it was therefore felt that the board had insufficient information to determine a Cause or Risk".
The chief constable of Cleveland Police has failed to get a misconduct hearing postponed until the conclusion of a separate criminal investigation.
Such a report would surely reach the conclusion that a gun in the home greatly elevates risks of suicide, lethal accident and fatal domestic violence.
In February 2011, the BLNR issued a preliminary decision conditioned on the successful conclusion of a contested case.
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Others will have come to a different conclusion and ticked a different box.
Also, an agenda-driven researcher can easily cherry-pick certain anomalous proxies that support a predetermined conclusion while ignoring a much larger set of proxies that tell a different story.
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But there was a disappointing conclusion, or a very welcome one from a Pakistan point of view, when Bresnan missed an easy run-out chance to finish off the innings four balls early.
Dortmund needed to win to stop Bayern from clinching the Bundesliga title mathematically, but with the Bavarians sporting a 20-point lead and just seven games to go, it is pretty much a foregone conclusion, like a baseball team with a "magic number" of one in August.
Mistakes had been made, she said, at December's Copenhagen summit, which was intended to provide a comprehensive package of measures to combat the causes and impacts of climate change - the conclusion to a commitment made by all governments at the 2007 summit in Bali - but which ended with no such thing.
Sustainability is not a high priority for most companies, and it is not becoming one that is the conclusion of a just-released survey of global executives by the Sloan Management Review.
Non-surgical specialist also came to this conclusion by a margin of 53 percent to 36 percent.
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In America, many conservatives have come to the same conclusion by a different route.
His conclusion of a free-trade deal with South Korea is another move towards the centre.
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