Ultimately, he says, it is the commitment to systematic analysis and systematic investment that distinguishes Bridgewater from other hedge funds.

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Researchers using a new systematic analysis technique identified faults in many more regions of DNA in the 1, 000 patients involved in the study.

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So, too, would a more systematic analysis of the exchange-rate adjustments needed to get there, as well as an assessment of the spillovers between countries' policies.

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But a systematic analysis based on what we teach in our own classrooms and publish in our books and journals has, it seems, not even be considered.

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On the subject of transparency, I would argue that many signals now point to the need for more systematic analysis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in the investment processes which drive capitalism.

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The authors' analysis -- which was not a systematic review -- was performed mainly for entertainment reasons, although the authors stress that there is a larger lesson to be learned.

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While it would be a formidable task to check every study Wagenaar et al. subsumed in their meta-analysis, a quick check to find out whether they included a study with a known systematic bias reveals the study included Chesson et al., a study by the Centers for Disease Control which claimed that increased beer taxes could reduce the rate of gonorrhea.

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