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And because we have these nice charts, we can measure things.
And it turns out that we can measure that very precisely.
We think doodling is something you do when you lose focus, but in reality, it is a preemptive measure to stop you from losing focus.
So this is what they were going to do in their trial: They were taking 3,000 children, they were going to give them these huge fish oil pills, six of them a day, and then, a year later, measure their school exam performance and compare their performance against what they predicted their exam performance would have been if they hadn't had the pills.
Can we measure this type of life?
But unconsciously, they're doing these quite complicated calculations that will give them a conditional probability measure.
Democracy, citizenship, how you should measure your land, what you should do if you're arrested, what you should do if your animal is sick.
Devices that can measure quantum effects can produce an endless stream of random numbers at high speed.
The measure we've used, because it's easy to understand and you can download it, is how much richer the top 20 percent than the bottom 20 percent in each country.
On that measure, we are twice as unequal as some of the other successful market democracies.
And there, you see it in relation to the measure of inequality I've just shown you, which I shall use over and over again in the data.
Here it is in relation to that same measure of inequality.
But once again, if you look at that measure of child well-being, in relation to national income per person, there's no relationship, no suggestion of a relationship.
It's actually a measure of mobility based on income.
The same countries, the same measure of inequality, one problem after another.
Then I had to measure morality.
So in fact, experimental economists had run this test around the world, and for much higher stakes, and the consensus view was that the measure from the first person to the second was a measure of trust, and the transfer from the second person back to the first measured trustworthiness.
After they watched the video, we had them rate their feelings and took blood before and after to measure oxytocin.
This has roughly 60,000 elements on it, so we repeatedly measure various genes of the 25,000 genes in the genome.
The problem is, if you hit this asteroid, you've changed the orbit, you measure the orbit, then you find out, oh yeah, we just pushed it into a keyhole, and now it's going to hit us in three years.
Now it does depend on how you measure it, of course, but one estimate has put the drain at 250 million dollars per day.
And one of the unique capabilities that we leverage with the MR is the ability to measure temperature noninvasively.
It's basically a measure of how many tigers, toads, ticks or whatever on average of biomass of various species are around.
When we measure GDP as a measure of economic performance at the national level, we don't include our biggest asset at the country level.
When we measure corporate performances, we don't include our impacts on nature and what our business costs society.
We are measuring it because we know that you cannot manage what you do not measure."
What's happening today is that the power that was encased, held to accountability, held to the rule of law, within the institution of the nation state has now migrated in very large measure onto the global stage.
So there's my first message, that if you are to pass through these turbulent times more or less turbulently, then our success in doing that will in large measure depend on our capacity to bring sensible governance to the global space.
Well the answer is, if I drew it on a normal curve where, let's say, this is years, this is time of some sort, and this is whatever measure of the technology that I'm trying to graph, the graphs look sort of silly.
[It] is that we are powerful beyond measure.
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