Likelihood in sentence

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He won't call himself an atheist because it's, in principle, impossible to prove a negative, but "agnostic" on its own might suggest that God's existence was therefore on equal terms of likelihood as his non-existence.

You would strictly have to be agnostic about whether there is a teapot in orbit about Mars, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as on all fours with its non-existence.

This silence carries profound consequences for the likelihood that nonviolence can grow, or even survive, in Palestine.

And what we looked at was whether the number of fund offerings available in a retirement savings plan, the 401(k) plan, does that affect people's likelihood to save more for tomorrow.

And this is not just philosophical, it's already known, that chemicals like diethylstilbestrol and estrogen, PCBs, DDT cross the placenta and effectively determine the likelihood of developing breast cancer and obesity and diabetes already when the baby's in the womb.

What you're proposing is going to increase the likelihood that lots of sex happens outside marriage.

The likelihood that people will get to the end is much greater when there is a milestone somewhere in the middle.

It's our tendency to overestimate our likelihood of experiencing good events in our lives and underestimate our likelihood of experiencing bad events.

So we underestimate our likelihood of suffering from cancer, being in a car accident.

But when you ask newlyweds about their own likelihood of divorce, they estimate it at zero percent.

And even divorce lawyers, who should really know better, hugely underestimate their own likelihood of divorce.

We asked them to estimate their likelihood of experiencing different terrible events in their lives.

So, for example, what is your likelihood of suffering from cancer?

And then we told them the average likelihood of someone like them to suffer these misfortunes.

So for example, if someone said, "My likelihood of suffering from cancer is about 50 percent," and we said, "Hey, good news.

The average likelihood is only 30 percent," the next time around they would say, "Well maybe my likelihood is about 35 percent."

But if someone started off saying, "My average likelihood of suffering from cancer is about 10 percent," and we said, "Hey, bad news.

The average likelihood is about 30 percent," the next time around they would say, "Yep.

And it's not that they didn't remember the numbers that we gave them; everyone remembers that the average likelihood of cancer is about 30 percent and the average likelihood of divorce is about 40 percent.

So if someone said, "My likelihood of suffering from cancer is 50 percent," and we said, "Hey, good news.

Average likelihood is 30 percent," the left inferior frontal gyrus would respond fiercely.

And by the way, when I asked him about his own likelihood of divorce, he said he was quite sure it was zero percent.

All that I want to tell you is that the reason that this has happened is because death penalty lawyers have understood that the earlier you intervene in a case, the greater the likelihood that you're going to save your client's life.

It has a high likelihood of failure and moreover, it has a high likelihood of making you feel stupid.

The red bars correspond to the likelihood that a man will die at the hands of another man, as opposed to passing away of natural causes, in a variety of foraging societies in the New Guinea Highlands and the Amazon Rainforest.

So the question is, why did these men dread cannibals so much more than the extreme likelihood of starvation?

So, I don't know how much civilization really has progressed since AD 79, but there's a great likelihood.

But there's a likelihood that we will confront a civilization that is more intelligent than our own.

But I also saw in my reflection that, had Abed not injured me, I would now, in all likelihood, be a doctor and a husband and a father.

Groups have shown that changes in the statistics of our language paired with machine learning can predict the likelihood someone will develop psychosis.

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