One may be tempted to draw a similar conclusion from the decline of unionization in the U.S. and the increases in labor regulations over the last 50 years.

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The public does not want to understand the fiendish complexity of the EU. Many in the EU establishment draw a simple conclusion from that: never ask voters directly about something as complicated as a treaty.

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Food-industry defenders point out that their children are as porky as those anywhere else though given the multiplicity of factors involved in fattening a population, it is hard to draw a firm policy conclusion from that evidence.

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When you have mastered a subject, you can recall two or more facts and, from those facts draw a conclusion as to how your newly recalled data points might combine to create an entirely different, perhaps unexpected point of view.

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Dr Yokota (and also Drs Lundeen and Steinberg) managed to observe them without looking, as it were, by not gathering enough information from any one interaction to draw a conclusion, and then pooling these partial results so that the total became meaningful.

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