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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

Based on this sharp change, he predicted all of China would improve in two weeks and stop in China by the end of March. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. At that rate, the entire world would be infected in 90 days. Only 3% of Wuhan were infected.

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

The researchers looked at systematic reviews conducted between 2006 and 2013. The effect sizes for these trials are still quite small, but when added together, there was more, and qualitatively better, evidence associating sugar consumption and increased weight gain the closer one got to 2013. But what about peer review?