The patient study that allows someone to know something that perhaps hasn't been known before — or perhaps something that someone has studied before, but one can go another step further, testing, verifying, correcting".
A recent Economist article notes a study that shows "the more someone uses Facebook, the less satisfied he is with life" because using it is, "associated with jealousy, social tension, isolation and depression".
The second common reason is that a pilot investigation is a small study that is similar in size to someone else's published study.
"What were the tiny birds that pinged out of the bracken... ?" That someone who has studied early English and moves so easily among the layers of her own language should feel so tongue-tied is her point.
Counting the number of individual viruses in a milliliter of blood, the study found that someone with 200,000 viruses per milliliter was two and a half times more likely to spread H.I.V. than someone with 2,000 viruses per milliliter.
"Our study suggests that someone in midlife who moves from the least fit to the second-to-the-least-fit category of fitness gets more benefit," in terms of staving off chronic diseases, than someone who moves to the highest fitness grouping from the second-highest.
One study estimated that someone smoking one and half packs a day receives the equivalent amount of radiation as someone having 300 chest X-rays a year.
A 2007 University of Michigan study found that someone whose spouse was in the hospital was nearly 1.5 times more likely to develop depression.
Interestingly, the latter study found that someone else's hand does not induce this effect, which suggests that one's own body or, at least, one's own hand plays a special role in calibrating size perception.
We didn't just create more reports or studies that went on someone's shelf.
