Some investors may not have the performance record or experience that a group of fund contributors require to trust the investor with managing their hard-earned money.
In interviews with The Washington Post's Paul Farhi, MSNBC said paid contributors are required to disclose potential conflicts with managers and CNN said it discloses to viewers when paid contributors have NDAs.
All Op-Ed contributors are required to sign an agreement that states, "You agree to disclose to The Times any financial interest you may have in the subject matter of the article," Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor, told me.
Consider Minnesota Public Radio, the largest state public radio system and producer of Garrison Keillor's popular program, "A Prairie Home Companion". As president of Minnesota Public Radio, William H. Kling made about $74,000 a year, a figure that the organization dutifully reported to its contributors, as required by law.
In all cases, contributors were required to define novelty within their respective investigative contexts.
The contributors were required to fill forms having predefined boxes, and the ground truth information and the filled forms were later inspected by human operators.
This implies that the "one-size fits all" reward mechanism is not a robust option and more intelligent approaches that consider the actual effort of data contributors are required.
However, relatively few variants have been confirmed for complex diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes in which both susceptibility genes and environmental contributors are required for the disease to develop (Botstein and Risch 2003; Hirschhorn et al. 2002).
The slow pace in identifying and confirming genetic contributors for complex diseases is due primarily to the difficulties of detecting relatively weak, incremental genetic effects as well as to the possibility that even moderate or strong effects involving a genetic contributor may require the co-occurrence of one or more environmental contributors (Hodgson and Popat 2003).
The latter, which requires contributors to look beyond the boundaries of their specialist subjects, proved an invaluable lifeline because it meant I got to watch some really great TV shows under the cover of professional necessity.
