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In another study, a longer deadline led respondents to commit more money to filing their tax returns, even though the length of the deadline arose from an incidental factor — the arrival of a lost W-2 tax form.
But closer examination reveals that this figure includes the deaths of tens of thousands in war, in the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere, whose faith was only an incidental factor in their deaths.
Researchers noted that the IQ of the marijuana-using group was significantly lower than that of the non-using group--not a finding of the study, but an incidental factor that might be indirectly linked to marijuana use.
Rather, it is an incidental factor entirely due to experimental design.
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Britt Brown also attributed his imprint's growth to a more incidental factor.
The third factor is interpreted as an incidental-learning factor (IncLrn).
Experts have noted in VICE's previous coverage of mass shootings how random they are; the types of shooting situations that usually lead to mass casualties can wound almost no one or large groups depending on a host of incidental factors.
The desire to migrate and life satisfaction, for example, can be both influenced by unobserved personality traits, such as an innate optimism, or incidental factors such as the weather or particular memories.
But Liz Clay might never have become an award-winning textiles designer if two incidental factors had not happened a decade ago.
Clearly if there is nothing in the sham treatment it can have no effect, so the response must be dictated by other contextual or incidental factors.
However, the assumptions and processes that underlie the classical RCT make it difficult to explore these incidental factors, leaving us with the paradox that while the RCT defines placebos, we cannot easily explore placebo responses within RCTs.
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