As MacDonald notes, the New York Times has been egging them on with "news" stories whose political bias and faulty analysis have twisted the truth and fueled the controversy, and set the group-think tone for much of the rest of the American media.

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If there is, of course, it will affect the result of the meta-analysis but not be detectable as bias.

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The data set used in the analysis was obtained from the CRSP Survivor-Bias-Free U.S. Mutual Fund Database.

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