To give just one example, an article in the journal Psychological Assessment, analyzing dozens of studies that compared clinical judgments with data-based diagnoses, found that clinical judgments were better in only a few instances.
Facial recognition tools identify a person by analyzing dozens of features, such as the length of a forehead and the distance between the eyes and the nose.
Foster analyzed dozens of pages of writing from several suspects, including Time's Walter Shapiro and the former Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman.
The hierarchy looked especially dubious after a team of academic researchers (not financed by industry) analyzed dozens of large-scale clinical trials in previous decades and reported that industry-sponsored ones met significantly higher standards than the nonindustry ones.
Adelphic seeks to paint a more detailed picture of mobile Web users by using complex software to analyze dozens of "signals" about mobile users' online activities, though Adelphic is not willing to go into too much detail about how the process works (it says it respects the privacy policies of the publishers that show its advertising).
The first example pertains to for anti-virus companies that need to analyze dozens of thousands of maliciously suspected (or unknown) files, including benign files, every day.
I met Jim Ware when he was researching his newest book, Investment Leadership: Building a Winning Culture for Long-Term Success (John Wiley & Sons), which analyzes dozens of investment management firms, my own included.
A research team has analyzed dozens of data sets from human genomics studies and found that nearly half of them have a sexual identity problem they're labeled as coming from a male but the data suggest they must be from a female, or vice versa.
However, a recent UCLA study analyzed dozens of treaties, programs and policies in place around the world and found all of them to be severely lacking.
Oceana, an environmental group focused on protecting the world's oceans, analyzed dozens of salmon samples around the country identified as "wild-caught," a distinction used to differentiate the fish from their farmed, often imported counterparts.
These numbers don't come from some back-of-a-napkin calculation, but are the result of a rigorous economical study where the researchers analyzed dozens of contributing, and contradicting, factors to create a spatial map of the economic value throughout the Amazon.
