Their combined influence is minuscule My eyes grabbed on that fragment, also, and I pretty much stopped reading there. And yet, even though their influence is

Their combined influence is minuscule My eyes grabbed on that fragment, also, and I pretty much stopped reading there. And yet, even though their influence is "minuscule", researchers want to use them to "determine which interventions would be most effective for children struggling to learn". What? Sounds potentially scary, actually. It may be a compelling result, or maybe not. But from the way the NYT piece is articulated, you just can't tell.