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From a forecasting perspective, if we know where trade is likely to change, for example, because of the African Growth and Opportunities Act or other policies that encourage trade, we can actually think about which areas are likely to be heavily infected with HIV.
The person who was told his name is Baker is less likely to remember the same word than the person was told his job is a baker.
Do you think Chopin would have been comforted by the thought, "Hey, 20 percent of the people who buy fake Chopin are more likely to go buy real Chopin"?
So it turns out that optimists are not less likely to divorce, but they are more likely to remarry.
So if we're married, we're more likely to have kids.
But if we believe we're better than the other guy, well that means that we're more likely to get that promotion, to remain married, because we're more social, more interesting.
And then we asked them again, "How likely are you to suffer from cancer?"
The more optimistic you were, the less likely this region was to respond to unexpected negative information.
The British government, for example, has acknowledged that the optimism bias can make individuals more likely to underestimate the costs and durations of projects.
What's more, if you're held in jail on bail, you're four times more likely to get a jail sentence than if you had been free, and that jail sentence will be three times longer.
And if you are black or Latino and cash bail has been set, you are two times more likely to remain stuck in that jail cell than if you were white.
Research is clear that holding somebody in jail makes you significantly more likely to commit a crime when you get out than if you had been free all along.
But if instead I start to meet a higher number of nest maintenance workers, I'm less likely to forage.
But in a small colony, it's likely to meet fewer foragers, just because there are fewer other foragers there to meet.
People are less likely to come forth to be tested or treated or to disclose their condition, none of which helps these individuals or the communities these laws purport to protect.
In 1994, Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein coauthored "The Bell Curve," an extremely controversial book which claims that on average, some races are smarter and more likely to succeed than others.
In it, he offered suggestions such as: "Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks," "Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods" and "Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in distress."
The more times you're forced to use your real identity, certainly in transactional terms, the more likely that identity is to get stolen and subverted.
The Global Media Monitoring Project has found that stories by female reporters are more likely to challenge stereotypes than those by male reporters.
Stories in the news are more than twice as likely to present women as victims than men, and women are more likely to be defined by their body parts.
There is the quickest way advances are likely to occur, as measured in discoveries per investigator per year.
This person is likely to have some form of schizophrenia.
And when you get there, more than likely, you will not have any of those top five regrets, because you will have built up the strength and resilience to lead a life truer to your dreams.
This is all 40 minutes of the recording, and right away the algorithm tells us a lot more tricks are missed than are made, and also a trick on the rails is a lot more likely to produce a cheer, and if you look really closely, we can tease out traffic patterns.
You will be more likely to give up before the 30 minutes elapse, compared to you.
Over the last century, we've become 96 percent less likely to be killed in a car crash, 88 percent less likely to be mowed down on the sidewalk, 99 percent less likely to die in a plane crash, 95 percent less likely to be killed on the job, 89 percent less likely to be killed by an act of God, such as a drought, flood, wildfire, storm, volcano, landslide, earthquake or meteor strike, presumably not because God has become less angry with us but because of improvements in the resilience of our infrastructure.
Yes, we are 97 percent less likely to be killed by a bolt of lightning.
Even if we look at something like workplace diversity and inclusion, if I asked you what gender-ethnicity combination is least likely to be promoted to senior managerial positions, who would you think it was?
It's Asian women who are least likely to be promoted.
I got to climb out of that hole, and I got to go home, but they likely never will, because they're trapped in slavery.
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