This is an exceedingly
dangerous assumption when you try to assign high levels of confidence.
People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be
a dangerous assumption when it comes to climate change, according to new Princeton research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Not exact matches
When creating marketing content, product strategy, or sales playbooks (for example,) simply relying on
assumptions can often lead to incorrect judgements and
dangerous conclusions.
«I think it is very, very
dangerous when people who call themselves community leaders make some
assumption that somehow that there's a rational connection between these two things.»
When bad things like abuse happen, it shatters our world of
assumptions and we become the puppets of stories like, «Only bad things happen» and, «The world is a
dangerous place.»
The valuation levels embed significant
assumptions for growth in rents, which is particularly
dangerous when the bull cycle in commercial real estate is so extended.
There is of course very little statistical evidence of this
assumption, and one should never allow dogs to eat things which seem
dangerous for this reason, but all dog owners are familiar with, for example,
when their dogs choose to eat soil, tree roots, bark, stones and other seemingly random objects.
Like any attempt to determine what a ghg national target should be, the above chart makes a few
assumptions, including but not limited to, about what equity requires not only of the United States but of individual states,
when global emissions will peak, and what the carbon emissions budget should be to avoid
dangerous climate change.
The actual amount of emissions reductions that are needed between now and 2020 is somewhat of a moving target depending on the level of uncertainty that society is willing to accept that a
dangerous warming limit will be exceeded, the most recent increases in ghg emissions rates, and
assumptions about
when global ghg emissions peak before beginning rapid reduction rates.
The most frequent, yet
dangerous assumption made is that the patient is under the influence of drugs and alcohol;
when the patient is not sober, there are two further risks posed: the patient is more likely to severely injure themselves, and them being under the influence of such substances often leads to the patient not being treated quickly.