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It should be noted that Turner's judgments, regarding spin in published data, are demanding; if researchers aggregated data, combining a highly positive study and an inconclusive one into a pooled analysis yielding overall moderate results, Turner counts the inconclusive study as having been misreported, even when the monograph indicates up front that data sets have been merged.