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He's a graduate student in philosophy, and he's set up a website called 80,000 Hours, the number of hours he estimates most people spend on their career, to advise people on how to have the best, most effective career.
For the first time in history, most people live in cities, and the U.N. estimates that over the next 40 years, the population is going to double on the planet.
The U.N. estimates that there are 55 million users of illegal drugs in the United States.
The WHO estimates that within Africa, up to half the vaccines used there are considered to not be working properly because at some point the cold chain has fallen over.
Estimates vary a lot, but some figures suggest that one in three people around the world have Toxo in their brains.
In fact, the current estimates are that there are 200 to 400 different genes that can cause autism.
On our current best estimates, we can save a life by distributing long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets for just a few thousand dollars.
Now, this is the new version of the button, and the designer who led this project estimates that he spent over 280 hours redesigning this button over the course of months.
The World Health Organization estimates that brain illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression are the world's largest cause of lost years of life and work.
By some estimates, we need one upstreamist for every 20 to 30 clinicians in the healthcare system.
So the United Nations estimates that every year, there are 1.5 million child deaths because of inadequate sanitation.
So if you look at this, these are the best estimates we have of world GDP growth and rate of return on capital, average rates of return on capital, so you can see that during most of the history of mankind, the growth rate was very small, much lower than the rate of return, and then during the 20th century, it is really the population growth, very high in the postwar period, and the reconstruction process that brought growth to a smaller gap with the rate of return.
Now, just to put that into perspective, that's about 400 times fewer than the best estimates of how many intelligent extraterrestrial life forms there are.
For many years, because there was no standardization in the definition of PMS, when psychologists tried to report prevalence rates, their estimates ranged from five percent of women to 97 percent of women, so at the same time almost no one and almost everyone had PMS.
The World Bank estimates that if we have a worldwide flu epidemic, global wealth will go down by over three trillion dollars and we'd have millions and millions of deaths.
So because there is no universally agreed-upon definition of what even constitutes an infidelity, estimates vary widely, from 26 percent to 75 percent.
This is a graph of autism prevalence estimates rising over time.
For decades, the prevalence estimates remained stable at just three or four children in 10,000.
A project chartered by the British government known as the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance estimates that the worldwide toll right now is 700,000 deaths a year.
A recent study estimates that without antibiotics, one out of ever six would die.
That British project I mentioned which estimates that the worldwide toll right now is 700,000 deaths a year also predicts that if we can't get this under control by 2050, not long, the worldwide toll will be 10 million deaths a year.
Worldwide, the International Labor Organization estimates that up to one million children a year are vulnerable for sex trafficking.
But GlaxoSmithKline estimates that 90 percent of the drugs work in only 30 to 50 percent of the people.
Scientists, including SETI researchers, often tend to make very crude estimates and acknowledge that there are very large uncertainties in these estimates, in order to make progress.
Why don't you make your own estimates for these unknowns, and see what you come up with for N? Compare that with the estimates made by Frank Drake, Carl Sagan, other scientists or your neighbors.
Estimates of it appear in the works of ancient Greek, Babylonian, Chinese, and Indian mathematicians.
Those estimates are based on factors like average weight, physical activity and muscle mass.
Even though the clearly wrong information in the initial questions should have been irrelevant, it still affected the students' estimates.
The AIDS epidemic caught the health community unprepared, and today, when the World Health Organization estimates that 39 million people have lost their lives to this disease, I'm not alone in feeling remorse and regret at not having done more earlier.
Overwhelmingly, at all ages, people’s future estimates of change came up short compared to the changes their older counterparts recalled.
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