Sentences with phrase «probability of doing»

Simplifying procedures in the justice system saves money but it also removes safeguards and reduces competence, and therefore, the probability of doing justice.

Please address how long it will take to reliably detect anthropogenic warming and the probability of doing so, in light of the uncertainties in the satellite record.

H20 gas if it can absorb a wavelength, then it means it can emit same wavelength - or has some probability of doing it - though if it absorbs x amount energy it will emit x amount energy at some wavelength.

Before you get sued, why not put something into place that minimizes your probability of getting sued, by maximizing the probability of doing business right?

Howard Marks: «The expected value from any activity is the product of the gains available from doing it right multiplied by the probability of doing it right, minus the potential cost of failing in the attempt multiplied by the probability of failing.»

All I'm saying is that the probability of doing so is extremely, extremely low.

Students at PARCC's college - ready cutoff score in math have an 85 percent probability of earning a math «C» average or better, whereas students at the MCAS cutoff score for proficiency in math have only a 62 percent probability of doing so.

Instead, they just describe the probability of its doing any one thing.

«If you've rescheduled something too many times, the probability of you doing it is low,» says Perchik.

So as long as the guiding principles of management teams do not change, then corporations with strong histories of increasing dividends have high probabilities of doing so in the future.

Not exact matches

So, if you have done the above two things right, you have a much better probability of getting a positive reply.

While there's only a one - in - a-million chance of some random person being able to do this on your phone, Apple said Wednesday that the «statistical probability is different for twins and siblings that look like you and among children under the age of 13, because their distinct facial features may not have fully developed.»

The goal in my counsel, and that of my co-workers in the firm, is to have clients understand what we have known all along: We are unable to predict the market's outcome, so don't fall into the trap where you think you can make predictions or you'll ultimately increase the probability of losing money.

It is done much more for public appearance than having real substance and probability of success.

«If you don't have support from the top, the probability that change will stick is low,» says Kim Cameron, a professor who specializes in positive leadership at the University of Michigan.

If you're not being clear and truthful about what you're thinking, then in my opinion what you're doing is being very inefficient, because everybody doesn't know what everybody else is really thinking, and you're probably reducing your probabilities of getting out what is actually true and how to deal with it.

Considering the possibility that maybe we're a rare civilization who made it past the Great Filter through a freak occurrence makes him feel even more conviction about SpaceX's mission: «If we are very rare, we better get to the multi-planet situation fast, because if civilization is tenuous, then we must do whatever we can to ensure that our already - weak probability of surviving is improved dramatically.»

VIX is a bet on prescience and probability: When we break it down to its most basic components, the VIX is in part a reflection of what option traders believe the markets might do during the next 30 days.

While IIHS and dozens of other private industry groups around the world have methods and motivations that suit their own subjective purposes, the most objective and accurate independent testing of vehicle safety is currently done by the U.S. government, which found Model S and Model X to be the two cars with the lowest probability of injury of any cars that it has ever tested, making them the safest cars in history.»

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I disagree completely, and not just because transferring bad debt from local governments to the central government, while undoubtedly reducing the probability of a legal default, does not in the slightest way address the cost of resolving the bad debt.

Using one of the various betting pools (addresses) on the platform with different rates of winning probability, all a user needs to do is send Ether (ETH) to a wallet and make sure they at least include the minimum bet which of 180,000 gas [0.0036 ETH].

«When a stock is relatively expensive, it is much harder to assess whether other people have simply done a better job than me at assessing the probabilities of successful outcomes.

«If brinksmanship by both sides does lead to a broken relationship, then we think Viacom shares could see more downside as it would create a much higher probability of future negotiations ending badly for the company.»

There have been hacks of widespread exchanges, essentially the most well - known in all probability being Mt. Gox, however this nonetheless doesn't expose any weak point within the decentralization mannequin.

So what these guys do is, they look at what a failure probability is of say the 4 % rule.

Because you have already factored in risk by applying the clinical trial probability of success, you do not need to include development risk in the discount rate.

Aside from the absurdly low probability of missing those specific periods while holding stocks in all the others, what's not recognized is that those strong periods don't occur randomly.

For the VCs that invest in a series D round, what does your research show as to probability of the VCs successfully exiting within 5 years or less, and conversely, is there any research showing the probability of the invested companies remaining as a going concern 5 years after the D round closes?

However, the age of this bull market does suggest risks are rising, and that to expect it to last much longer without a cyclical downturn would be stretching historical probability.

As bullish as I am about the future of blockchains, I do recognize that there is a small probability that they don't scale for transactions, either because the tech is not figured out or users demand just doesn't increase to the scale we hope.

I do not know the exact figure, but the probability of everything being created by accident is really quite small.

The probability of Jesus being a huge up start for the Romans, the Romans never mentioning him is on par with a 6,000 year old Earth, it just didn't happen.

Failure to understand that in thermodynamics probabilities are not fixed ent.ities has led to a misinterpretation that is responsible for the wide - spread and totally false belief that the second law of thermodynamics does not permit order to spontaneously arise from disorder.

Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that human beings should engage in an activity that poses dangers to others only if, in the totality of the circumstances, doing so is reasonable» i.e., if the good to be achieved, taking account of the probability of success, is proportionate to the possible ill effects.

I don't know how anyone can hope that something will happen without at least believing that it can happen, no matter how small the probability of that may be.

In all probability you habitually exert a certain amount of self - discipline of your own thoughts and feelings, and probably you do not see why others can not readily do the same.

Thus we support a reduction in the speed limit because it will «save 7,466 lives every year,» though we would not do so if we recognized that such a law merely reduces the probability that an individual will die in a car accident from.0005 to.0004, a benefit too trivial to be noticed and, for any individual faced with the choice, far below the value of the additional driving time it entails.

The claims which Christian faith makes are an interpretation which it puts upon these happenings; and the historian has every right to investigate the records of these happenings and to pronounce upon the probability or otherwise that they did in fact occur.

You need to concern yourself with the degree of probability of something, and to do that you must assess the evidence.

How do you come up with a probability of something that exists beyond time and space, has never been observed in any fashion what so ever, but created everything?

The probability of those things happening is not important because they did happen.

What would a day be in the Divine circadian cycle of an omnimodal, omnipotent being, 24 hours, 24 billion years, 24 milliseconds??? Nowhere in the Bible coes it say that evolution does not exist within the living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of natdoes not exist within the living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of natdoes say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of natDOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of nature.

We do mean to suggest the possibility and even the probability that in the unmistakable implications of messianism in Joseph, the germ of the later development of the concept was something already given in Israel's early traditions, precisely as the germinal faith in one God as Creator (Gen. 2), Judge (3 - 11) and Redeemer (12 ff.)

But I do not see that he has shown that the sampling methods of probability theory (supplemented by minimal metaphysical assumptions about, say, random samples) are not capable of taking account of this aspect of the future.

These events described in Galatians had to occur before the adjudication of this dispute by the Jerusalem Conference, and in all probability did occur before Paul and Barnabas made their missionary journey.

He is just re-writing the rules of the world's largest fantasy role playing game to avoid openly admitting that there is a possibility, if not a high probability, that god does not exist.

Just because something has a probability of say «1 in a million» does not mean it will take till the 999,999 «th failure for a positive result to happen!

William, Of course the beauty of Pascal's Wager is it doesn't matter what the probabilities are since the penalty / reward are infinite while the cost is finitOf course the beauty of Pascal's Wager is it doesn't matter what the probabilities are since the penalty / reward are infinite while the cost is finitof Pascal's Wager is it doesn't matter what the probabilities are since the penalty / reward are infinite while the cost is finite.

I think that what we must do is to start running as fast as possible toward that light, working to increase the probability of our survival through the next decade by some measurable amount.