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Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school.
The closest we get to crime and punishment is likely what we see on TV.
Because those are the moments in which their attention is most likely to be vulnerable, because of stress and mind-wandering.
This seems most likely.
If you have this deleterious mutation in this gene, you're 90 percent likely to get cancer in your life.
So it's likely I'm related to every Resnick that I ever meet, but I don't know.
They're posh, they're wealthy, less likely to have outdoor jobs, less likely to do manual labor, they have better social support, are less likely to smoke; for a host of fascinating, interlocking social, political and cultural reasons, they're less likely to have wrinkles.
And so it's no surprise that overall, industry-funded trials are four times more likely to give a positive result than independently sponsored trials.
As you go up, those are bigger trials, so they've got less error; they're less likely to be randomly false positives or negatives.
There's some evidence that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, and then it most likely traveled to North America with Dutch settlers.
Poor kids and gay kids are more likely to be bullied, even by kids who also end up being gay.
I'm not saying hate was the only reason I picked on Vicky or even that I was consciously hateful or anything, but the fact is, the people we discriminate against in our public policies and in our culture are also the groups of people most likely to be bullied in school.
In fact, there is fulfillment in striving, and trying to provide answers and solutions to the problem humanity faces even when the likely outcome is failure.
So what scientists do is they have a hypothesis that they think might be likely to start with.
If I showed you this detector, you would be likely to think to begin with that the way to make the detector go would be to put a block on top of the detector.
Whereas, if you do the likely thing, put the block on the detector, it will only activate two out of six times.
Researchers have long known that the more intelligent the species, the larger the neocortex, the more likely it is to be deceptive.
And if you ask someone honest what should happen to whomever did forge those checks, an honest person is much more likely to recommend strict rather than lenient punishment.
In this context, when you don't know if the potential enemy is preparing for defense or attack, and if the weapons give an advantage to attacking, then this environment is most likely to spark a conflict.
And it's likely to get worse.
Indeed, the quantum computer is likely to turn our present security castle into a mere house of cards.
And the more unequal societies are more likely also to retain the death penalty.
But interestingly, high testosterone males are also more likely to use their own money to punish others for being selfish.
They most likely did the same as Mr. Domingos: "Ah! What's this?
Without the Sun, there's likely to be no life on this planet.
Males are much more likely to die an accidental death in the prime of their life.
And men are much more likely to have their significant other, spouse, give consent than the other way around.
Whereas Spanish speakers will be more likely to say they're "strong" or "long," these masculine words.
In a language like Spanish, you might be more likely to say, "The vase broke," or, "The vase broke itself."
Whereas Spanish speakers might be less likely to remember who did it if it's an accident, but they're more likely to remember that it was an accident.
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