This is the typical refutation of tons of valid research, just point out your own personal success (a study of one)and try to sell it as what of course is the norm, and it is not.

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If this research is valid, I guess if he wants to move up he should quit reading about vampires and start acting more like one.

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Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, the economists behind the original research, said in a statement: "It is sobering that such an error slipped into one of our papers despite our best efforts to be consistently careful, " but they added that the "central message" of their research was still valid.

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In two months, we gathered the biggest research database of natural, ecologically valid facial expression videos ever.

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However, at a Medtronic analyst meeting at the conference, lead trial investigator Gust Bardy from the Seattle Institute for Clinical Research insisted that such an approach would not be medically valid.

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"It's a false premise, " says retail expert Britt Beemer of America's Research Group on the notion of Wal-Mart's same-store sales as a valid economic measurement.

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