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Without those protective factors in his life, Christopher would be more likely to commit further, more serious crime.
What's particularly interesting is that those with the least ability are often the most likely to overrate their skills to the greatest extent.
The more knowledgeable we become, the less likely we are to have invisible holes in our competence.
If a system like this had existed for Hannah and her peers, it's more likely that they would have reported, that they would have been believed, and that Mike would have been kicked off campus, gone to jail, or at least gotten the help that he needed.
So since 2012, the Loon team has prioritized the work that seems the most difficult and so the most likely to kill their project.
Since one of the things that was most likely to kill the Loon project was whether we could guide the balloons through the sky, one of our most important experiments was putting a balloon inside a balloon.
In our species' journey to find a new home under a new sun, we are more likely than not going to be spending much time in the journey itself, in space, on a ship, a hermetic flying can, possibly for many generations.
And so, if we were to dump any of us on Mars right this minute, even given ample food, water, air and a suit, we are likely to experience very unpleasant health problems from the amount of ionizing radiation that bombards the surface of planets like Mars that have little or nonexistent atmosphere.
And as all of this topographical engineering unfolds, we will likely spend more on infrastructure in the next 40 years, we will build more infrastructure in the next 40 years, than we have in the past 4,000 years.
Our data shows that people who communicate with more than 58 different contacts tend to be more likely to be good borrowers.
And in fact, I think the only thing that the SDR would likely steal from the dollar under this scheme is its nickname, the "greenback."
If you served in Vietnam and your brother is schizophrenic, you're way more likely to get long-term PTSD from Vietnam.
If you're in the military and you're in a lot of combat, you're no more likely to kill yourself than if you weren't.
In fact, one study found that if you deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan, you're actually slightly less likely to commit suicide later.
If you live in modern society, you're up to eight times more likely to suffer from depression in your lifetime than if you live in a poor, agrarian society.
And sea levels are likely to rise between two and ten feet by century's end.
Black men, in particular those with high blood pressure, are less likely to have a primary care doctor than other groups.
The cortical map is also most likely responsible for the feeling of body parts that are no longer there, because they still have representation in the brain.
They're more likely to say they feel pleasure when they learn new information or an itch to solve a puzzle.
They're more likely to feel intrigued when they encounter something that contradicts their expectations.
They're more likely to say they think it's virtuous to test your own beliefs, and they're less likely to say that someone who changes his mind seems weak.
We know that professors are less likely to help female or minority students.
Those interested in sport could share information about how famous sports stars were putting their image rights into offshore companies, thereby likely avoiding taxes in the countries where they plied their trade.
Underrepresented people are more likely to be interrupted, so just take a step back and listen.
And what we found was really surprising, because the people who got the rude words were five times more likely to miss information right in front of them on the computer screen.
In a biotechnology firm, colleagues and I found that those that were seen as civil were twice as likely to be viewed as leaders, and they performed significantly better.
If you're civil, you're more likely to be seen as a leader.
Those that felt respected were healthier, more focused, more likely to stay with their organization and far more engaged.
I've spent much of my career working with journalists, with bloggers, with activists, with human rights researchers all around the world, and I've come to the conclusion that if our democratic societies do not double down on protecting and defending human rights, freedom of the press and a free and open internet, radical extremist ideologies are much more likely to persist.
The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the next few decades has arrived.
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