Percentage
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And it's also about the
percentage
that believes the government is putting mind-controlling technology in our TV broadcast signals.
So we've seen over many of our global economies, health care expense grow as a
percentage
of GDP over the last years.
We fix the ratios of each layer, and then we decide the
percentage
of each tree species in the mix.
If we are making a fruit forest, we increase the
percentage
of fruit-bearing trees.
Its per capita immigration rate is four times higher than France's, and its
percentage
of foreign-born residents is double that of Sweden.
And I suspect that if you asked someone who did know how to read, say a member of the clergy, "What
percentage
of the population do you think is even capable of reading?"
But if I were to ask you a similar question: "What
percentage
of the population do you think is capable of truly mastering calculus, or understanding organic chemistry, or being able to contribute to cancer research?"
But when you look at the
percentage
of global electricity from clean energy sources, it's actually been in decline from 36 percent to 31 percent.
Now, you might wonder, "Come on, how much could five
percentage
points of global electricity be?"
Plus, CRISPR has some off-target effects, a very small percentage, but they're still there.
We've got an infrastructure that allows a certain
percentage
of people to spend all their time doing research.
That's gap of 16
percentage
points, and it's the same gap that existed a decade earlier.
Well, too early, because I didn't quite pull that, but I came in second, and we went a long way from the one percent, with nearly a third of the vote, and we beat the polls by an unprecedented margin, or 10
percentage
points above what the last poll came in at.
But what really makes me proud is to know that I earned proportionately higher
percentage
support from the young people, and a lot of people encouraged my daughter to run in 2040.
I was one of the few
percentage
of students who had a background in computer programming.
At that point, what
percentage
of China's one billion citizens were struggling to survive on less than two dollars a day?
And it's still only a small
percentage
of what's out there.
The first is with cities. San Francisco wanted to understand what
percentage
of litter was cigarettes.
If you could generate a revenue stream just by understanding the
percentage
of cigarettes, well, what about coffee cups or soda cans or plastic bottles?
We believed in data, but what happened, even with the most respected newspaper, is that the obsession to reduce everything to two simple
percentage
numbers to make a powerful headline made us focus on these two digits and them alone.
But in a tiny percentage, the instructions for building more HIV viruses lies dormant, sometimes for years.
Standardized test scores in math and reading go up by two to three
percentage
points.
Speaking of justice, there's another phenomenon going on in our culture that I find deeply troubling, and that is that America, right now, has the largest
percentage
of its population in prison of any country on Earth.
While many stars exist as binary systems, only a small
percentage
of those end up as neutron-star binaries, where two neutron stars circle each other in a waltz doomed to end as a merger.
And then I learned that only four percent of older Americans are living in nursing homes, and the
percentage
is dropping.
But such wonderful materials may benefit only those who can read well, and the
percentage
of those who can read well may be much less than we expected.
They're getting bigger as we go, and the
percentage
of population living in cities is projected to rise.
This means that as a female killer whale ages, a greater
percentage
of her family consists of her children and grandchildren, while more distant relatives die off.
And we asked them, "If you get a tax refund, what
percentage
would you like to save?" Now this is a really hard question.
In the second group, we asked people right after they received their refund, "What
percentage
would you like to save?" Now, here's what happened.
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