Especially when large expenses have
the chance of occurring in the near future.
Rather, a 500 - year flood is an event that has a 1 in 500
chance of occurring in any given year.
[18] There has also been a 40 percent increase in number of five - year rain events, extreme events that have only a 20 percent
chance of occurring in any given year.
A 500 - year flood has a 0.2 %
chance of occurring in any single year.
Even if we consider that global warming shifted the mean of the distribution by +1.75 °C, an anomaly of +6 °C or greater was still very unlikely —
its chance of occurring in any given month was about 0.26 %.
They are, broadly speaking, random events that have a 1 %
chance of occurring in any given year.
Susan Anderson's NYT link: «The flooding in Louisiana is the eighth event since May of last year in which the amount of rainfall in an area in a specified window of time matches or exceeds the NOAA predictions for an amount of precipitation that will occur once every five hundred years, or has a 0.2 percent
chance of occurring in any given year.»
If these last two outliers were drawn from a normal distribution, each would have much less than a one - in - a-hundred
chance of occurring in the entire 13.8 billion years the universe has existed.
«Currently, engineers are designing low - rise structures for an earthquake that has a 10 percent
chance of occurring in a 50 - year - lifetime,» he said.
A 100 - year flood has a 1 in 4
chance of occurring in the 30 - year span of a typical home mortgage, he said, adding that's the kind of time scale that gets people's attention.
The chances of this occurring in wet sediments are reduced.»
Something that was a 1 in 100
chance of occuring in the old distribution is not just slightly more likely.
What are
the chances of this occuring in a real dataset?
If you were a victim of domestic violence, if there was incidence of child abuse at home, or there are
chances of them occurring in future, then mediation becomes a tricky issue.
Not exact matches
For example, if your actions could result
in the death
of a client, this is a huge risk despite the
chances of it
occurring being remote.
In a nutshell, Bitcoin generates currency at a predictable rate (which reduces the chances of an inflationary spiral like those that have occurred in countries with traditional currencies) through a computer - intensive mathematical process known as «Bitcoin mining.&raqu
In a nutshell, Bitcoin generates currency at a predictable rate (which reduces the
chances of an inflationary spiral like those that have
occurred in countries with traditional currencies) through a computer - intensive mathematical process known as «Bitcoin mining.&raqu
in countries with traditional currencies) through a computer - intensive mathematical process known as «Bitcoin mining.»
There is a very small
chance that any individual investment you make will ever see a liquidation event, so when that coveted liquidation event does
occur, it should have a
chance of being big enough to offset a significant amount
of losses
in other investment you've made
in the venture asset class.
Also, transitions may
occur in a small population,
in a small area, and / or
in a relatively short amount
of time; when any
of these conditions hold, the
chances of finding the transitional fossils goes down.
You can argue that the original organism had better eyesight than others
of his species and therefore the change increased his ability to survive, but you ignore that the change had to
occur in the first place, and if there was a change
in the first animal the interconnectedness
of the related bodily functions makes it impossible for the
chance change — which by the way required the loss
of genetic material — to have happened regardless
of the amount
of time you had.
However small the probability
of life randomly
occuring, if the number
of chances for that to happen is very large (possibly even infinite
in multiple universes) then it becomes almost a certainty.
The indigenous peoples
of the Western Hemisphere, having been wiped out at not even having a
chance at knowing god, would not have been there at the time
of Christopher Columbus» voyage: thus, the cultural revolution that
occurred in the Americas would have to have never happened.
But also it does seem to suggest that the universe exists because
of God's creative action and the scientific evidence we have indicates that this creative action was not a one - off event because,
in addition to the problem
of inheritance, the actual conditions for life to
occur on Earth are so stringent that they could not have happened by a process
of natural
chance.
In retrospect, it seems very much like the salesman who has been driving himself frantic traveling over his territory and to whom it suddenly
occurs that a lot
of his best customers, if given the
chance, would like to take the initiative and come to him.
When a society regards itself as being charged by a higher authority to care for each and every human life
in its charge, is it not the prime responsibility
of a society so charged to intervene, to break into our privacy, when there is a strong
chance that death might otherwise
occur?
For example,
in criticising Dawkins, he points out that «If every step
in the series [
of evolution]
occurs by
chance... the end can not be ordered», apparently unaware that Dawkins does not view evolution as entirely random, but allows for a certain direction, provided by the mechanism
of natural selection (p. 51).
Yet, without
chance, nothing new could ever
occur, that is, new
in the sense
of establishing novel causal patterns and forms
of organization.
[8] If there is ample room for what we call
chance in the natural world, it is because there is already an intelligible structure
of purposes within which unintended intersections can
occur.
A slight unevenness
of distribution
occurring by
chance at any given point (a contingency that was bound to arise) was all that was needed to cause the entire edifice to break up into parts which, sundering themselves from their neighbors, coiled
in more and more tightly upon themselves
in enormous clots — their vastness, by the law
of celestial mechanics, being directly proportionate to the lightness
of the matter
of which they were originally composed.
Even so... many unrelated events
of chance must
occur in close enough fashion for even that first spark
of life to
occur... and then everything else is based on
chance.
What the argument by probability does is to reflect on the «fine - tunedness»
of a universe
in which life can exist, reflects on the
chance of life
occurring through purely random events, and concludes that the
chance of life coming into existence through purely random forces
of nature is so infinitesimally small as to be almost non-existent.
The two non-league sides were due to take each other on
in their domestic league competition this weekend, only for it to be postponed by the pair reaching the unlikely heights
of the FA Cup fifth round, and should an unlikely giant killing
occur on Monday, they will earn the
chance to take each other on for a place at Wembley.
After Hector Bellerin was replaced
in the Spain U21 squad we were all hoping that the same thing would
occur with Sanchez, but with Antonio Pizzi there is little
chance of compassion for the Gunner's plight and he reckons that Sanchez is on the mend...
For example, a statistician will tell you there's a one - third
chance of X (or a 95 %
chance of Y)
occurring in a given year.
It was here that it
occurred to me that all four
of these former Hollywood power brokers stand a better
chance of sharing a reality TV - themed dwelling with Corey Feldman and Emmanuel Lewis than making an impact on pop culture
in the near future.
One way, I believe, to address the problem
of under - reporting and increase the
chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows
occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs
of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the
chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure
in terms
of the force
of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact,
in real time at all levels
of football, and
in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.
If the nipple is not placed
in a very specific way there is a high
chance of leaks
occurring.
A study released
in the Archives
of Disease
in Childhood revealed that breastfeeding may be helpful
in improving a child's
chances of climbing the social ladder and effectively navigating other challenges that may
occur as adults.
I do still test for some allergies but according to our Pediatrician, unless the allergy runs
in the family, there is a super slim
chance of it suddenly
occurring in my LO.
One study found that «growth spurts usually
occurred within two days
of the increased sleep» period and that each hour
of additional sleep meant a 20 percent increase
in the
chance that it was due to a growth spurt.
Clamping the cord, especially at an early stage, may also cause the extra blood trapped within the placenta to be forced back through the placenta into the mothers blood supply with the third stage contractions.32 33 This feto - maternal haemorrhage (FMH) increases the
chance of future blood group incompatibility problems, which
occur when the current baby's blood enters the mother's blood stream, causing an immune reaction which can be reactivated
in a subsequent pregnancy, destroying the baby's blood cells and causing anaemia or even death.
Parental reporting, however, was accurate
in a previous study.13 Because
of the number
of comparisons
in these analyses, some
of the significant associations could have
occurred by
chance.
Upon investigation
of this kit will know that you are pregnant or not., Also, if the pregnant woman's uterus
in pregnancy symptoms and increases pressure on the urinary bladder urine poured over the woman's
chance of pregnancy is confirmed., The constant changes that
occur in the body to feel tired all the time
of conception, the same characteristics., It is time to consult a good doctor.
Detection bias has also been cited as a significant methodologic problem
in studies
of the relation between breastfeeding and infection among full - term infants.21 Detection bias may
occur when breastfed and bottle - fed infants do not have an equal
chance of being identified with an illness.
High BGLs
in pregnancy alter the growth and development
of the baby, increasing the
chance of particular complications
occurring.
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos told me recently
in a CapTon interview that he thinks the
chances of all that
occurring are pretty low.
Early dissolutions
occurred when the make - up
of Parliament made forming government impossible (as
occurred in 1974), or, more commonly, when the incumbent government reasoned an early general election would improve their re-election
chances (e.g. 2001).
«It is right that Ofqual works with exam boards to ensure all possible steps are taken to minimise the
chance of mistakes
occurring in the future.
The probability
of such systems
occurring by
chance, he calculates, is less than 1
in 10150.
The dominant nature
of Huntington's disease increases the
chance of the disease
occurring in offspring.
An earthquake
in the eastern Aleutian Trench big enough to generate a massive tsunami like the one
in the study is expected to
occur once every thousand years, meaning that there is a 0.1 percent
chance of it happening
in any given year — the same probability as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan, according to Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.