However, when the extracted studies had subjects overlapping more than 50% with two or more papers, we merely enrolled the one whose population was the most comprehensive.
The truth is simple: Access to higher education must involve more than merely an opportunity to enroll in a course.
However, as we are enrolling a cohort with early cognitive impairment, we anticipate a decline of approximately this magnitude (ES = 0.15) over 12 months in our sample, so that the sham control condition would merely offset that decline (ES = 0.0).
Causal inferences from studies reporting program results are necessarily weak, because these studies merely describe outcomes in individuals enrolled in financial-incentive programs and do not allow any comparison to individuals who did not receive financial incentives.
Some of this would have been accomplished through better outreach efforts and making it easier to enroll in the program, but merely covering parents would have gone a long way.
To the credit of the British investigators, however, they were not satisfied merely to observe that the bombers had enrolled in an appealing death cult.
The quality factors, including "job knowledge," "professionalism" and "problem solving," were merely categories that also were judged based on the number of students enrolled, they said.
But it wasn't merely pomp and circumstance: the purpose of this rump inauguration was to enforce the Confederate Conscription Act, and thus forcibly enroll Kentuckians into the Confederate Army, which they had voluntarily avoided up to that point.
