So in fact, it is the case, if you look at data, and by the way, that's the way I ended up setting a lot of these parameters and playing with it, was comparing what my simulation said to historical stock data.

所以实际上，在这个例子中，如果你看到数据，顺便说一下，这就是我设置很多变量,然后编程的方式，也就是把我的仿真程序得到的结果,和历史股票数据进行比较。

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But if I were doing a business model for broadsheets and broadcast networks I'd say: Fact and data are our product, we're putting everything into reporting, that's what we're selling, interpretation is the reader's job, and think pieces are for the edit page where we put the hardy, blabby hacks.

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One way to have the best of both worlds is to collect on-site questionnaire data yourself and then hire a consultant to come in after the fact and simply analyze the data.

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And, in fact, SEC and Bloomberg data indicate the practice may have helped cause the Lehman Brothers collapse, as more than 37 million shares were sold short and not delivered as of Sept. 11, 2008, compared with more than 500, 000 at the peak of 2007.

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