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The perfect test would be to collect all of the firms that are both competent and eligible and see whether the size of their contributions affected whether they received a contract and how large the contract was. However, given the wide variation in both contract size (from $2.3 billion to $10,000) and campaign expenditures (from zero to $8.8 million), what's presented is still a fair test of whether there is systemic corruption.