offered a relatively inexpensive, low-risk supplement to the large-scale collection of other information that could be measured more cheaply and reliably than with large-scale studies.
People were leaning towards alternatives to large-scale studies.
mnli hypothesis: People were leaning towards alternatives to large-scale studies. premise: offered a relatively inexpensive, low-risk supplement to the large-scale collection of other information that could be measured more cheaply and reliably than with large-scale studies.