Sentences with phrase «own predisposition»

She wants to help solve a bottleneck in healthcare, which is not knowing enough about predispositions to diseases, with the huge data set that results from over 2 million genotyped 23andMe customers.

However, a study performed at Edinburgh University found that much of our predisposition toward determination, sociability, self - control, and sense of purpose is in our genes.

According to an online experiment of 2,338 Americans supported by the National Science Foundation, «introducing name calling into commentary tacked onto an otherwise balanced newspaper blog post, the study showed, could elicit either lower or higher perceptions of risk, depending on one's predisposition to the science of nanotechnology.»

Consequently, if you do read every word of every article, then you will attract people with similar predispositions to your business.

Belief in the hot hand is just a delusion that occurs because we as humans have a predisposition to see patterns in randomness; we see streakiness even though shooting data are essentially random.

The entrepreneur needs to mitigate as many of the hurdles in front of her as possible in order to make her startup a success and can not afford to be a victim of her own predispositions.

We also have this nasty predisposition to speak and do based on what we feel in the moment.

In a region known for its predisposition to philanthropy at an individual, corporate and government level, its not hard to find numerous examples of community support through financial aid.

«Veterans and military spouses have a predisposition to serve, whether they're still in active duty or they've transitioned into the civilian world,» he said.

Stage fright can be intensified by a variety of other factors, including genetic predisposition, personality, and the stakes of the situation.

Maybe, someday, if money managers no longer are making salaries and bonuses I consider exorbitant, my predisposition toward humans will swing my choice the other way.

The authors argue that America's predisposition for favoring small business is not just misguided but has had a pernicious effect.

They measure individual cultural predisposition along two dimensions: hierarchy versus egalitarianism, and individualism versus communitarianism.

When you've got this mandate in your head that you're going to start writing checks, there's a predisposition to confirmation bias.

The ongoing quest to better understand disease predisposition and prevention through genomic and environmental factors is key to increasing the quality and length of life.

But there's little comfort for Mr. Smalling even if a predisposition to homosexuality is eventually shown to be genetic.

The idiotic clamoring of the unrighteous revelers in atheistic cynicisms are tyrannical perverts of predispositions posting their crap to make follies of those religious fruit loops who can't even rightly divide the word of truth into being parables and fiction and historical!

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Believers should be understanding yet aware that their attacks on faith are the result of predispositions not facts.

Observer: A person with a violent predisposition or criminally inclined should not attempt to subvert his / her behavior if they recognize the damage to self and others?

It is the thing I didn't know that I didn't have when I turned 20, but people could only disappoint me so many times before I had to address the expectations, predispositions and unhealthy behavior patterns I was bringing to the table.

Manic depression and schizophrenia may turn out to involve a genetic predisposition; alcoholism almost certainly does.

Discovering the approximate location on the chromosome of the gene or genes responsible for a given disease will permit doctors to diagnose a genetic disease or predisposition before the onset of symptoms.

It is commonly thought that women are more capable than men of paying attention to another person, and that motherhood develops this predisposition even more.

In effect he is noting that our human minds are naturally compatible with belief, in that «from childhood, humans have a number of predispositions that incline them to believe in gods generally and perhaps a super-knowing, creator god in particular.»

If one is not a biblical literalist there is no case at all, nothing but prejudice born of ignorance, that attacks people whose only crime is to be born with an unchangeable sexual predisposition toward those of their own sex.

The development of effective birth control methods has made it possible for the unitive function of human sexuality to be expressed more freely, which admittedly given predisposition to selfish predatory behavior is a mixed blessing.

Whether you call it a disease, or a genetic predisposition... the wording is not important at this level of understanding, but your statements about character are absurd.

Though I do think that many alcoholics don't have direct control over their situation because of a chemical dependancy that is produced due to an individuals genetics, personality, and levels of dependency (which is not a negative thing per say, it's just that certain people do have genetic predispositions to addiction).

There is pretty reasonable evidence and reason to think that people may be born with a genetic predisposition to believe in the supernatural.

Candiano You do understand that predisposition to alcholholism and gender preference are completely and totally different, don't you?

Those who are by strong predisposition morally evil «are moved in vain by compunction to righteousness, just as, for the most part, good are tempted to sin without harm.

Those with the predisposition need to do as those with a predisposition to alcoholism must do.

4) Even if homosexuals have a predisposition, it is not the predisposition that is sinful, it is the giving in to it (i.e. alcoholics).

I'm open to any opinion because I don't measure it against my religious predispositions.

The mammalian brain's predisposition to and need for nurture can serve as a metaphor for understanding a nurturing God.

It would be both inhuman and theologically deficient to fail to take such predispositions into account, for these are the particular openings which give opportunity for Scripture to speak with special power

Just like someone who has a predisposition to be an alcoholic, as long as they don't become drunk no problem.

It is not having the predisposition that is sinful, but acting on it.

I am not denying that some may feel such a predisposition.

Science has also said that some people have a predisposition to alcoholism.

(Some of us believe in abstinence as the Biblical standard, but even for those who don't, the predisposition isn't the sin - it is the act.)

(Personally I believe that predisposition to homosexuality is actually created by man - but that is another issue.)

That does not mean that they MUST commit the acts - whatever the predisposition is.

Ashbrook and Albright argue that a central feature of human cognition is our predisposition to humanize what we perceive.

Love enough to see all people like God would see them not like your predisposition would see them.

I would only suggest that Christians, and even non-Christians, read the Bible with their minds cleared of predispositions and see it through their own eyes as though it is completely new.

So... I think, as with most studies, the findings are somewhat biased in favor of the researchers predisposition.

Let us then provisionally define religion as the totality of an individual's sincere attitudes and predispositions toward that which serves as the final expression of that individual's particular primary interest or goal — which in fact is very much the same as saying, with Whitehead: «Religion is what the individual does with his [or her] own solitariness» (TIM 16).

It's based on a predisposition or paradigm that the Bible can't be what it claims to be.