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The answer to the question posted by the authors is a qualified "yes". They write that nuanced behaviours may only become apparent when a massive number of cases is considered. Additionally, data sets that are able to have fine-grained feature sets are able to make better predictions. But it's no walk in the park, it still takes a lot of expertise to develop the algorithms, and it's expensive. (Note - I haven't cited this source before - it should be open access, but sometimes things look like they're open access when I'm working in my office, but are not open access when I'm clicking on the link from home. so if you have problems, please tell me).

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