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This approach beat supercomputers 50
percent
of the time and tied 30
percent
of the time.
Twenty
percent
of the foreign fighters were from Libya, 50
percent
of those from a single town in Libya, hugely important since prior statistics put that figure at three
percent.
In January, 2010, a devastating 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, third deadliest earthquake of all time, left one million people, 10
percent
of the population, homeless.
When you put all the mental illnesses together, they account for roughly 15
percent
of the total global burden of disease.
And yet, even in the best-resourced countries, for example here in Europe, roughly 50
percent
of affected people don't receive these interventions.
In the sorts of countries I work in, that so-called treatment gap approaches an astonishing 90
percent.
The actual number is about 3,000, about two
percent
of that number.
In rural Uganda, Paul Bolton and his colleagues, using villagers, demonstrated that they could deliver interpersonal psychotherapy for depression and, using a randomized control design, showed that 90
percent
of the people receiving this intervention recovered as compared to roughly 40
percent
in the comparison villages.
Roughly 75
percent
of mothers recovered as compared to about 45
percent
in the comparison villages.
And in my own trial in Goa, in India, we again showed that lay counselors drawn from local communities could be trained to deliver psychosocial interventions for depression, anxiety, leading to 70
percent
recovery rates as compared to 50
percent
in the comparison primary health centers.
Cities will account for 90
percent
of the population growth, 80
percent
of the global CO2, 75
percent
of energy use, but at the same time it's where people want to be, increasingly.
They're still not to where Copenhagen is, where something like 42
percent
of the trips within the city are by bicycle.
It recognizes where the person is, what they're doing, fills out the light when necessary to full spectrum white light, and saves maybe 30, 40
percent
in energy consumption, we think, over even conventional state-of-the-art lighting systems.
She won with 75
percent
of the vote.
Well, that's less than one
percent
of the surface area of the bay.
It would produce, at 2,000 gallons per acre per year, it would produce over 2 million gallons of fuel, which is about 20
percent
of the biodiesel, or of the diesel that would be required in San Francisco, and that's without doing anything about efficiency.
To bring a successful drug to market, it takes, on average, 13 years — that's one drug — with a sunk cost of 4 billion dollars, and only one
percent
of the drugs that start down that road are actually going to get there.
Now believe it or not, normal, healthy, intelligent adults like you make errors about 50
percent
of the time on that kind of trial.
Okay, so if I just show you the percentage errors in a large developmental study we did, this is in a study ranging from age seven to adulthood, and what you're going to see is the percentage errors in the adult group in both conditions, so the gray is the director condition, and you see that our intelligent adults are making errors about 50
percent
of the time, whereas they make far fewer errors when there's no director present, when they just have to remember that rule of ignoring the gray background.
Forty
percent
of teenagers don't have access to secondary school education.
A study in Florida just a few years ago found that if you're sitting where this photograph was taken in the classroom, row four, speech intelligibility is just 50
percent.
In the U.K., that's more than 10
percent
of the school population.
As a country gets richer, it invests more and more in getting more and more surplus into its shops and restaurants, and as you can see, most European and North American countries fall between 150 and 200
percent
of the nutritional requirements of their populations.
Fish, 40 to 60
percent
of European fish are discarded at sea, they don't even get landed.
Out of anesthetic, he had let them know that he wanted to be there, and he had given me about a two
percent
chance of living.
Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70
percent
of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead you to claim more value from that negotiation.
Risk tolerance, which is the gambling, we find that when you are in the high-power pose condition, 86
percent
of you will gamble.
When you're in the low-power pose condition, only 60 percent, and that's a whopping significant difference.
This year, they are now producing eight million nets a year, and they employ 5,000 people, 90
percent
of whom are women, mostly unskilled.
And so, Anuj and Acumen have been talking about testing the private sector, because the assumption that the aid establishment has made is that, look, in a country like Tanzania, 80
percent
of the population makes less than two dollars a day.
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