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And 70 percent of this new labor force were previously unemployed or underemployed.
A three-digit score, your traditional credit history, that only 30 percent of us actually know what it is, will no longer be the determining factor in how much things cost, what we can access, and, in many instances, limit what we can do in the world.
This site receives five and a half thousand questions a day, and 80 percent of these receive accurate answers.
Thomas Edison once said, "We don't know one percent of one millionth about anything."
The top one is 10 percent longer than the bottom one.
In fact, the predictive relationship between genital response and subjective experience is between 10 and 50 percent.
In Ethiopia, 70 percent, that's 7-0 percent of the population, depends on rainfall for its livelihood.
So 45 percent of men develop cancer.
Thirty-eight percent of women develop cancer.
People you don't know come in and look at you and poke you and prod you, and when I tell cancer survivors that this tool we created to protect them is actually preventing their data from being used, especially when only three to four percent of people who have cancer ever even sign up for a clinical study, their reaction is not, "Thank you, God, for protecting my privacy."
As you can see, I carry a 32 percent risk of prostate cancer, 22 percent risk of psoriasis and a 14 percent risk of Alzheimer's disease.
So Vanderbilt ran a study asking people, we'd like to take your biosamples, your blood, and share them in a biobank, and only five percent of the people opted out.
But only five percent of the people wanted out.
Its largest recipients were Germany and France, and it was only 2.5 percent of their GDP.
An average African country receives foreign aid to the tune of 13, 15 percent of its GDP, and that is an unprecedented transfer of financial resources from rich countries to poor countries.
[Unclear] told us they are always about four percent of the population, but 16 percent are imitators.
Why does the government of Uganda budget spend 110 percent of its own revenue?
Agriculture, which employs 18 percent of our poverty-stricken citizens, takes only 18 billion.
A recent survey said that 27 percent of bosses believe their employees are inspired by their firm.
However, in the same survey, only four percent of employees agreed.
The answer turns out to be two percent.
If you include Internet telephony, you might be able to push this number up to six or seven percent, but it's nowhere near what people tend to estimate.
It's actually about three percent.
Not quite ten percent.
If you look at the official statistics, they typically indicate a little bit above 30 percent.
So nobody knows how bad this bias with the official statistics actually is, so I thought I would ask the person who's spearheading the effort to generate data on this, Pascal Lamy, the Director of the World Trade Organization, what his best guess would be of exports as a percentage of GDP, without the double- and triple-counting, and it's actually probably a bit under 20 percent, rather than the 30 percent-plus numbers that we're talking about.
So it's very clear that if you look at these numbers or all the other numbers that I talk about in my book, "World 3.0," that we're very, very far from the no-border effect benchmark, which would imply internationalization levels of the order of 85, 90, 95 percent.
For four quantities whose average value is less than 10 percent, you have people guessing three, four times that level.
The answer is probably somewhere between 10 to 15 percent.
Non-negligible, so we don't live in an entirely local or national world, but very, very far from the 95 percent level that you would expect, and the reason's very simple.
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