Sentences with phrase «high levels of confidence about»

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• Moffatt & Stanton (2005) also found «high level of knowledge about the effects of passive smoking on baby» and «confidence in ability to quit» associated with smoking cessation.

Knowing about the physical and emotional changes you may go through will probably make it easier for you to face the next few months with a higher level of confidence.

Patient commentaries about the MVI program collected during this investigation noted a more general feeling of self - confidence in life, with higher levels of control and vitality.

The failure to address WIPP's shortcomings does not build confidence that shipping high - level nuclear waste with about 1,000 times more radioactivity than WIPP is approved to handle would be safe now and for thousands of generations that the wastes are hazardous.

The substantial uncertainties currently present in the quantitative assessment of large - scale surface temperature changes prior to about A.D. 1600 lower our confidence in this conclusion compared to the high level of confidence we place in the Little Ice Age cooling and 20th century warming.»

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The odds are about 20 % that the balance at year 10 will be higher than one - half way between this level and the level of the high confidence limit.

Men when compared to women were twice as likely (15 per cent to 7 per cent) to simply sign all loan documents without reviewing; this could be explained by higher confidence in their level of knowledge about home equity lines of credit, 15 per cent greater than that of women (65 per cent vs. 52).

I mean, if you think about it, if you certainly know or you think or have a high level of confidence that you're going to select a manager that can outperform the market, or you know with certainty they're going to outperform the market, then you would actually choose to do that.

(Note in Curry's 2011 «Reasoning About Climate Uncertainty» Curry does countenance the possibility of two opposing arguments each backed with a «high confidence level», so there are potentially two trees, and one of which Curry insists is the wrong one.)

Positive and negative yield impacts projected for local temperature increases of about 2 °C above preindustrial levels maintain possibilities for effective adaptation in crop production (high confidence).

To make a long story shorter, we can with high levels of confidence, that no ethical system would condone the justifications for non-action on climate change that have been offered in opposition to proposed climate change legislation even if there is disagreement about what perfect justice requires.

The state of our knowledge about future climate change is such that the degree of uncertainty and the level of ignorance precludes formulating a PDF of outcomes, or even putting bounds on the outcomes with a high confidence level.

Another factor is the «sanctioning» of these models by the IPCC (with its statements about model results having a high confidence level), which can lead to building confidence in climate models through circular reasoning.

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).

And again, the higher the thermometer climbs, the greater the possible disparities in the adaptive capacity of regions: ``... local warming of about 4 [degrees Celsius] and higher above pre-industrial levels is projected to result in differences between crop production and its population - driven demand becoming increasingly large in many regions (high confidence), thus posing very significant risks and challenges to food security.

Such solecisms throughout the IPCC's assessment reports (including the insertion, after the scientists had completed their final draft, of a table in which four decimal points had been right - shifted so as to multiply tenfold the observed contribution of ice - sheets and glaciers to sea - level rise), combined with a heavy reliance upon computer models unskilled even in short - term projection, with initial values of key variables unmeasurable and unknown, with advancement of multiple, untestable, non-Popper-falsifiable theories, with a quantitative assignment of unduly high statistical confidence levels to non-quantitative statements that are ineluctably subject to very large uncertainties, and, above all, with the now - prolonged failure of TS to rise as predicted (Figures 1, 2), raise questions about the reliability and hence policy - relevance of the IPCC's central projections.

When it comes to health insurance, it's Baby Boomer men who seem to have a higher level of confidence over the basics (even when they're incorrect about them).

In the last five years, it's made about $ 1 billion in assets, ensuring its strength in the market and a high level of consumer confidence.

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Americans are more positive about the direction of the economy, as consumer confidence reached its highest level since October 2007, according to a Thomson Reuters / University of Michigan index on consumer sentiment.

Westerik and Hodge say that no matter how high your confidence levels, one of the most daunting aspects of starting up a new brokerage is worrying about whether people will believe in your vision.