You're able to tease apart those items which truly have the ability to advance your cause from the ones that are just stressing you out because they're yelling for your immediate attention.
The NEJM study attempted to tease apart the effects of genes and the environment on the risk of cancer.
Instead, he said, "it is a pattern, like a bar code with thousands of lines on it," that allows researchers to tease apart the fine points of relatedness among populations.
Thee pew researchers speculate that this is because more women than men are unemployed by choice, although the study didn't attempt to tease apart that difference.