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So in a purely competitive world, 50% of the population would be left-handed.
So by correctly predicting the distribution of left-handed people in the general population, as well as matching data from various sports, the model indicates that the persistence of lefties as a small but stable minority reflects an equilibrium that comes from competitive and cooperative effects playing out simultaneously over time.
From the skewed distribution of pawedness in cooperative animals, to the slightly larger percentage of lefties in competitive hunter-gatherer societies, we may even find that the answers to some puzzles of early human evolution are already in our hands.
It can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you're playing a competitive sport, or have to speak in public.
Perhaps one team is too competitive, or not competitive enough.
A study on competitive golfers compared their performance when instructed to simply focus on putting as accurately as possible, versus when they were primed to be acutely aware of the mechanics of their putting stroke.
These internships are paid, and the people who move on to permanent roles are commanding competitive salaries.
The short story was about my life as a competitive swimmer and about my crappy home life, and a little bit about how grief and loss can make you insane.
We saw, for 26 hours, all these competitive species share a single resource called water.
I mean, we've tried a lot of approaches to social justice, like war and competitive ice dancing.
This leads to the much-spoken-about competitive behavior between professional women.
Essilor carefully scans the competitive environment for potentially disruptive technologies.
Every company I know spends plenty of time thinking about the central question of strategy: How good is our competitive game?
This is nearly 200 children, who are now going to some of the most competitive high schools in New York City.
I mean, all of the ballroom dance geeking out that we had always done on why salsa worked differently than the competitive rumba and why tango traveled unlike the waltz, all of that just hit the public consciousness, and it changed everything.
Because they're worried about competitive advantage, litigation or regulation.
And this competitive rhetoric is standard now.
And when things get that competitive about the future, humans are no longer valued for our creativity.
Can it be a real competitive advantage?
So they are looking for new skill sets, new competitive advantages.
I was going to say, I had a great social experience when I went to college that I hadn't had before, a more fraternal experience, where I met six or seven other guys who I studied physics with, and I was very competitive with them, so then I started to get A's.
Western workers lost their jobs, they saw their incomes stagnate, clearly people had to think about new competitive policies, workers needed retraining, workers needed new skills.
Our competitive advantage as a species is our brain.
There were 10 artists invited to participate in it, and it was one of those things where it was extremely competitive and I didn't want to be embarrassed, so I worked very hard on this.
("In order to remain competitive in today's marketplace, I'm afraid we're going to have to replace you with a sleezeball.")
In Japan, it's been said, they've created a competitive spirit without competition.
But the emergence of formal competitive play in the late 19th century meant that strategic calculation would eventually trump dramatic flair.
A nonprofit I helped to found, First Draft, is working with normally competitive newsrooms around the world to help them build out investigative, collaborative programs.
Yes, there's e-sports, there's prizes, there's the opportunity to make money in a competitive way.
Certainly we live in a competitive society.
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