The researchers said it might simply be more effective to train patients.
Legal experts also wonder whether prosecutions like the one against Andersen, which was Enron's auditor, are going overboard, and whether they are simply blunting more effective reforms.
So if the case for independence doesn't rest with the big old ideas – anti-colonialism, freedom struggles, the liberation of a repressed identity – does it lie simply with more effective governance, and in the possibility of being slightly better-off (£250 per head was one SNP projection) after the divorce?
"SuperAwesome is now very big with scale far, far in excess of any individual kids property and many companies are now realising that partnering with us is simply much more effective than trying to build their own kid-compliant ad platform," says Collins when I asked him the thinking behind Bin Weevils effectively outsourcing its ads business.
Although the explanation for this phenomenon may be that methotrexate is simply a more effective anti-inflammatory agent, recent work in our laboratory suggests an alternative explanation.
More subtle contextual factors can also play a role; for example, some methods might simply be more effective in some cultures than others, for example because determinant relevance may differ (McEachan, Conner, Taylor, & Lawton, 2011).
Some products are simply more cost-effective than others.
It is simply more cost-effective to create a knockout once, and share it, than the parallel production of identical knockouts.
This paper argues that it may be more valuable to establish and promote "effective engagement," rather than simply more engagement, with "effective engagement" defined empirically as sufficient engagement with the intervention to achieve intended outcomes.
