Percentage
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She found herself listening to a consultant one day who was trying to help teachers boost the test scores of the kids, so that the school would reach the elite category in
percentage
of kids passing big tests.
What
percentage
of the time?
The lowest
percentage
of entrepreneurs starting businesses.
The first one is the Engels coefficient, which explains that the cost of daily necessities has dropped its
percentage
all through the past decade, in terms of family income, to about 37-some percent.
Where the
percentage
of illiteracy is very high, we use puppetry.
Well what
percentage
of those bombs do you think actually landed inside the 700-acre perimeter of the plant? 10 percent.
The green represents the
percentage.
And the mixture that the patient inhales needs to be at least a certain
percentage
oxygen or else it can become dangerous.
But this gives control to the provider, whether there's power or not, because they can adjust the flows based on the
percentage
of oxygen they see that they're giving the patient.
We invited them to save three
percentage
points more every time they get a pay raise.
And of that, only a tiny
percentage
ever goes viral and gets tons of views and becomes a cultural moment.
Now the reason this works is because patent trolls are paid a
percentage
of what they're able to recover in settlements.
If, at the same time, you'd gone and asked people, "What
percentage
of first-class mail arrives the next day?" the average answer, or the modal answer, would have been "50 to 60 percent."
Are we going to reach the stage where information has a
percentage
for fact associated with it?
We start labeling information for the fact
percentage?
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.
So this red line is the employment-to-population ratio, in other words, the
percentage
of working-age people in America who have work.
And although a lot of people like privacy as their methodology of control around data, and obsess around privacy, at least some of us really like to share as a form of control, and what's remarkable about digital commonses is you don't need a big
percentage
if your sample size is big enough to generate something massive and beautiful.
So one of the things I've been doing over the last few years is really compiling data on things that could either happen within national borders or across national borders, and I've looked at the cross-border component as a
percentage
of the total.
Of all the voice-calling minutes in the world last year, what
percentage
do you think were accounted for by cross-border phone calls?
Pick a
percentage
in your own mind.
One particular thing we might look at, in terms of long-term flows of people, is what
percentage
of the world's population is accounted for by first-generation immigrants?
Again, please pick a
percentage.
What
percentage
of that was accounted for by foreign direct investment?
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.
What
percentage
of people's friends on Facebook are actually located in countries other than where people we're analyzing are based?
When you ask people in France what
percentage
of the French population is immigrants, the answer is about 24 percent.
Or to take an even more striking example, when the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations did a survey of Americans, asking them to guess what
percentage
of the federal budget went to foreign aid, the guess was 30 percent, which is slightly in excess of the actual level — ("actually about ... 1%") (Laughter) — of U.S. governmental commitments to federal aid.
It was: "What
percentage
of the day and night do you think about this person?"
Here is a graph that he put together showing the
percentage
of male deaths due to warfare in a number of foraging, or hunting and gathering societies.
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