Sentences with phrase «high degree of confidence by»

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However, when all respondents were asked whether they know, with a high degree of confidence, how much of their current income would be replaced by income from a retirement plan at work, 38 % did not know.

Canadian retirees can receive government support through the Old Age Security (OAS) pensions as well as through the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), yet 48 % of those surveyed did not know with a high degree of confidence how much of their current income will be replaced by their CPP or OAS benefits.

As one who has studied genetics and mechanisms of evolution for most of her life» evolution by natural selection being the one with which I am most familiar» I can say with a high degree of confidence that Prof. Carlin has no clear idea of what «Darwinism» means.

In the pre-modern ages human consciousness was dominated by a feeling of helplessness in the face of all natural and supernatural forces, causing people to acknowledge their absolute dependence on divine help, whereas the modem age has been marked by a high degree of human self - confidence and the belief that humans can at last master the forces of nature, justifying an optimistic hope for the human earthly future.

Couples who have moved into familiar patterns and built a high degree of confidence can be shattered by infidelity.

The EPAS system also allows for a high degree of tuning by Ford vehicle dynamics engineers to optimize steering feel, pleasing enthusiast drivers and serving as a confidence builder for less - experienced drivers.

When looking at employer - sponsored retirement plans, a mere 40 percent of respondents know, with a high degree of confidence, how much of their current income will be replaced by their retirement plan at work.

In the case of the rats raised by good mothers, their brain genes expressed to a high degree for traits like self - confidence, sociability, and resistance to stress.

In May, Royal Dutch Shell responded to shareowner concerns on the issue, and adopted the same position as Exxon: «there is a high degree of confidence that global warming will exceed 2 °C by the end of the 21st century,» the company stated.

Therefore modelers tend to show a higher degree of confidence towards the model than expected by the the «certainty trough» model.

This high degree of confidence was only reinforced by the paper saying it's conclusions weren't based on a single type of proxy (such as tree rings), but rather:

Based on our assessment, we have very high confidence for climate impacts (especially sea level rise and storm surge) on ecosystems; and we have high confidence for climate impacts on agriculture (reduced to some degree, compared to our level of confidence about ecosystems, by uncertainty about the efficacy and implementation of adaptation options).

«Indeed the mean state of a chaotic system can be defined by the forcings... forecast with a high degree of confidence that the next month of July will be — on average - warmer than April»

By WUWT regular «Just The Facts» I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth's climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary driver of Earth's temperature and make predictions of Earth's temperature decades into the future, all with a high degree of confidencBy WUWT regular «Just The Facts» I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth's climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary driver of Earth's temperature and make predictions of Earth's temperature decades into the future, all with a high degree of confidencby claims that we understand Earth's climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary driver of Earth's temperature and make predictions of Earth's temperature decades into the future, all with a high degree of confidence.

Based primarily upon the range of urban minus rural adjusted dataset comparisons and the degree of agreement of these products with a broad range of reanalysis products, it is unlikely that any uncorrected urban heat - island effects and LULC change effects have raised the estimated centennial globally averaged LSAT trends by more than 10 % of the reported trend (high confidence, based on robust evidence and high agreement).

I think the rate of change over past decades is represented by models to some degree but not quite well enough to gather high confidence.

«Skillful diplomacy led by the Mexican Presidency provides just enough substance to move the process forward; and does not compromise environmental integrity of reaching a global deal in the future... This scenario provides sufficient movement on key issues and rolls the negotiation process forwards another year, but must contain a high degree of trust and confidence to prevent moving back into Zombie.»

The increase of these extreme anomalies, by more than an order of magnitude, implies that we can say with a high degree of confidence that events such as the extreme summer heat in the Moscow region in 2010 and Texas in 2011 were a consequence of global warming.

We also know that MOST of the uncertainty, by far, is on the high side of that sensitivity confidence curve — that is it's a whole helluva lot more likely that sensitivity is 6 degrees than it is that it's 1 degree.