Proportion
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And that
proportion
is primarily genetically determined.
I suspect that the word "atheist" itself contains or remains a stumbling block far out of
proportion
to what it actually means, and a stumbling block to people who otherwise might be happy to out themselves.
I mean the world has changed out of all
proportion
to what we would recognize even 1,000 or 2,000 years ago.
It's simply the
proportion
of the population who agree most people can be trusted.
This is the
proportion
of the population in prison.
I had shown in the early 2000s that countries with a higher
proportion
of trustworthy people are more prosperous.
With ADD, children have a low
proportion
of beta waves for focus states and a high
proportion
of theta states.
Here in Germany, the
proportion
of people that use contraception is about 66 percent.
There's some sort of beautiful symmetry that the degree to which we connect to a community is in
proportion
to our individuality, which we are expressing by what we do.
This is a work of some
proportion
and some weight that makes the body into a city, an aggregation of cells that are all interconnected and that allow certain visual access at certain places.
To give you a perspective, if I had to translate the
proportion
of psychiatrists in the population that one might see in Britain to India, one might expect roughly 150,000 psychiatrists in India.
So, the
proportion
of the tubes in this animal is very important for the walking.
Like, a huge
proportion
of them couldn't be bothered after they had just started, they just signed up, to reply.
Of course, there were lots of people who opted for a 100 percent one or the other, but I found that a much larger
proportion
of people identified as something that was much more nuanced.
Look at how the world looked in the 1960s, in terms of the
proportion
of people who had completed high school.
They took up the challenge, and Korea was able to double the
proportion
of students achieving excellence in one decade in the field of reading.
It's shocking to realize that only 28 percent of American adults have even a very basic level of science literacy, and this was tested by asking simple questions like, "Did humans and dinosaurs inhabit the Earth at the same time?" and "What
proportion
of the Earth is covered in water?"
Those ticks and crosses represent the 7,800 houses we've looked at nationally around Australia, the same
proportion.
Chasing 250,000 pieces of malware a day is a massive challenge, and those numbers are only growing directly in
proportion
to the length of my stress line, you'll note here.
Back in the year 2000, about 100 billion photos were shot worldwide, but only a minuscule
proportion
of them were actually uploaded online.
But more importantly, I think, is the fact that a very significant
proportion
of people in this audience are under 30, and there are many, of course, who are well over 30.
Aid as a
proportion
of national income all of a sudden is at a 40-year high.
It's hard to say without actually doing it, but they would not be better in the
proportion
of 1,000 to 18, I can tell you that.
Almost overnight, the
proportion
of men in the NBA who are at least seven feet tall doubled to 10 percent.
And like many in Silicon Valley, he tries really hard to observe what they call an Internet sabbath, whereby for 24 or 48 hours every week they go completely offline in order to gather the sense of direction and
proportion
they'll need when they go online again.
But let's keep things in
proportion.
Here's the
proportion
of people not living in extreme poverty.
Over and well over three million people have crossed the borders and have found sanctuary in the neighboring countries, and only a small proportion, as you see, have moved on to Europe.
What it basically means is the
proportion
of young people living in our fragile cities is much larger than those living in our healthier and wealthier ones.
More recently, that power is untethering and leaping off the desktops, and very, very quickly, we're going to see a significant proportion, if not the majority of the human race, walking around holding, carrying or wearing supercomputers linked at speeds greater than what we consider to be broadband today.
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