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So for all of these reasons, all of these ecosystem services, economists estimate the value of the world's coral reefs in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year.
Take the estimate of glomerular filtration rate, or GFR.
As you can see in this lab test, the exact same creatinine level, the concentration in the blood of the patient, automatically produces a different GFR estimate depending on whether or not the patient is African-American.
That estimate has since been fine-tuned.
While BMI can be a helpful estimate of healthy weight, actual body fat percentage can only really be determined by also considering information like waist circumference and muscle mass.
If you put an anti-malarial gene drive in just 1 percent of Anopheles mosquitoes, the species that transmits malaria, researchers estimate that it would spread to the entire population in a year.
But what if that estimate is just based on your own experience in a non-mastery framework, your own experience with yourself or observing your peers, where you're being pushed at this set pace through classes, accumulating all these gaps?
If you are asked to estimate the walking speed of a man in a video, for example, your answer will be different if you're told to think about cheetahs or turtles.
What is your estimate for the rate of adoption?
He wanted to estimate N, the number of communicative civilizations out there in our galaxy, and he included in there the rate of star formation, the rate of planets, but crucially, intelligence.
So for example, some scientists estimate that in any given moment ... Better, better click, right?
Of those, a reasonable estimate is about 5,000 of them make it through various filters, agencies, management companies, screenplay compositions and the like, and are read by someone at the production company or major studio level.
Well, we estimate that to implement all 80 solutions would cost about 29 trillion dollars over 30 years.
I estimate 10 to the 16 bits per second, which is actually about very similar to what Blue Gene does.
Here, I can estimate exactly how many cards are put between my royal flush.
In addition, our geology team managed to produce an age estimate.
You can estimate its gaze direction from those eyeballs covering its camera, and you can tell when it's actually seeing the toy.
And the estimate is that in 2050, there'll be three billion squatters, better than one in three people on earth.
The software in the scanner uses those detectors to estimate where inside the body the collision occurred and create a 3D map of the tracer’s distribution.
And the artist himself could also benefit from this sort of listing procedure by using it to estimate how many pots of paint he's likely to need in the future.
In fact, Danny Hillis can estimate altitude by how much math he can't do in his head.
They go out and point a telescope at the sky, take a picture, identify what are stars and throw them away, look at the galaxies, estimate how far away they are, and plot them up.
By 2050, researchers estimate that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
And even worse, plastic is incredibly tough and durable and researchers estimate that it can take anywhere from 500 to 5,000 years to fully break down.
And this is the second year in a row we have lost over 30 percent of the colonies, or we estimate we've lost 30 percent of the colonies over the winter.
But we estimate that about one in three bites of food we eat is directly or indirectly pollinated by honeybees.
In a sense, what Bernoulli was saying is, if we can estimate and multiply these two things, we will always know precisely how we should behave.
Now, estimating odds, as difficult as it may seem, is a piece of cake compared to trying to estimate value: trying to say what something is worth, how much we'll enjoy it, how much pleasure it will give us.
The comparisons we make when we are appraising value, where we're trying to estimate how much we'll like things, are not the same comparisons we'll be making when we consume them.
Because I could go on for about two hours with evidence of people's inability to estimate odds and inability to estimate value.
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