# kaal:claim:2150377-035

**Claim.** Prior surveys of hedge fund manager expectations left the central questions unanswered because they were fielded before the registration effective date and used substantially smaller samples, so they measured anticipation rather than experience.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- surveys conducted before March 30, 2012
- including the EisnerAmper and Rothstein Kass studies

**Source quote.**

> These prior studies left many questions unanswered because they were conducted before the registration effective date and had substantially lower sample sizes.204

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Hedge Fund Manager Registration Under the Dodd-Frank Act* (2012), VI. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Hedge Fund Manager Registration Under the Dodd-Frank Act (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2150377

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**Failure mode.** pre-effective-date-surveys-measure-expectations  (family: research-design-limitation)

**Topics.** empirical-evidence, research-methods

**Keywords.** prior-research, survey-methodology, expectations-versus-experience, sample-size, dodd-frank-act

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