Likelihood
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If you sleep around about five hours or less every night, then you have a 50 percent
likelihood
of being obese.
The people who we find are the highest-risk offenders, the people who we think have the highest
likelihood
of committing a new crime if they're released, we see nationally that 50 percent of those people are being released.
And then, towards the bottom, you see the Failure to Appear Score, which again is the
likelihood
that someone will come back to court.
Inside the airways and lungs, smoke increases the
likelihood
of infections, as well as chronic diseases like bronchitis and emphysema.
These vascular effects lead to thickening of blood vessel walls and enhance blood platelet stickiness, increasing the
likelihood
that clots will form and trigger heart attacks and strokes.
Fifteen years in, the
likelihood
of developing coronary heart disease is essentially the same as that of a non-smoker.
I beat out all the Ph.D.'s because I figured that if you treat children like human beings, it increases the
likelihood
they're going to behave that way.
Chronic loneliness increases your
likelihood
of an early death by 14 percent.
We can look at all their velocities and we can build a model that predicts what is the
likelihood
that this shot would go in under these circumstances?
And our ability to know the shot probability for every player at every second, and the
likelihood
of them getting a rebound at every second can illuminate this moment in a way that we never could before.
As a result, those with high energy burdens have a greater
likelihood
of conditions like heart disease and asthma.
Which meant a greater
likelihood
to get funded.
Or at least if bad things happen, will minimize the
likelihood
of it being a total catastrophe.
And by increasing the number of collisions, we increase the
likelihood
that some of those collisions will have the correct alignment and enough energy to create a date to the dance.
More collisions means a greater
likelihood
that collisions with the appropriate energy and configuration will happen.
Faster-moving particles means more energy, and a greater
likelihood
of the reaction-causing collision.
If we can make smart investments in these new sources of water in the coming years, we can solve our urban water problem and decrease the
likelihood
that we'll ever run across the effects of a catastrophic drought.
Poor posture inflicts extra wear and tear on your joints and ligaments, increases the
likelihood
of accidents, and makes some organs, like your lungs, less efficient.
The study created a leadership framework that said, in essence, that someone with potential, if given the opportunity to engage in strategically relevant experiences and given the ability to learn the lessons from those experiences, would have a higher
likelihood
of success in their career in a leadership capacity.
Now if you took that study framework and my $10,000 experiment and looked at it through the kaleidoscope, you would get a statement like this: if kids are given financially-relevant experiences in their life and someone is there to help them learn the lessons from those experiences, they have a higher
likelihood
of achieving financial success later in life, and in my humble opinion, they need to have them early, and they need to have them often.
When a movement includes in its discourse language around gender equality, it increases dramatically the chances it will adopt nonviolence, and thus, the
likelihood
it will succeed.
I have a friend who developed such computational systems to predict the
likelihood
of clinical or postpartum depression from social media data.
So at this human resources managers conference, I approached a high-level manager in a very large company, and I said to her, "Look, what if, unbeknownst to you, your system is weeding out people with high future
likelihood
of depression?
In fact, the
likelihood
of developing bipolar disorder is driven by the interactions between many genes in a complicated recipe we're still trying to understand.
In that column, you write down the answer to: What could I do to prevent each of these bullets from happening, or, at the very least, decrease the
likelihood
even a little bit?
You're in the gang for four years, you expect to die with about a 25 percent
likelihood.
The huge diversity within the insect world also increases the
likelihood
that an orchid will find a unique audience.
And engaging with other scientists, doctors, ethicists and governments to maximize the
likelihood
that base editing is applied thoughtfully, safely and ethically, remains a critical obligation.
But that
likelihood
fades as long as ice melts again.
We may not be able to stop it, but the
likelihood
that it will get past us is lower if we focus on that problem.
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