When business researchers analyze data, they often rely on assumptions to help make sense of what they find. But like anyone else, they can run into a whole lot of trouble if those assumptions turn out to be wrong—which may happen more often than they realize. That’s what we found in a recent study looking at financial data from about a thousand major U.S. companies.
When it comes to finance, ‘normal’ data is actually pretty weird
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