But even with such training, the untamed foxes had no better
than a random chance of finding the hidden food.
If you attempt to trade chop, you are gambling and in my opinion, you have worse
than a random chance of profiting because the market will move a little bit in your favour and then reverse against you, no matter if you're trading long or short.
Not exact matches
Instead
of a second
chance, probation ends up being a land mine, with a
random misstep bringing consequences greater
than the crime.»
A recent winner — a fund whose performance put it in the top quartile in 2013 among portfolios with the same investment objective — had only a 56 percent
chance of doing better
than average in 2014, barely better
than you would expect by
random chance.
You laugh at the Supernatural, even though scientists have calculated the odds
of life forming by natural processes to be estimated less
than 1
chance in 10 to the 40, ooo power — But you find nothing wrong with believing that billions
of years full
of random mutations would result in the impossible.
Truth is a teleological argument for the existence
of a supreme intelligent entity is more valid
than any argument based on
random chance that I have ever heard.
Using his new technique to study wild animals, Amos has found that inbreeding could be more important in determining an individual's
chances of survival
than random factors such as environmental change.
The probability
of winning was higher on one slot machine (67 percent winning
chance)
than on the other (33 percent winning
chance), and the order
of outcomes was completely
random.
Passengers have more
chance of winning the National Lottery jackpot
than being allocated middle seats at
random on a Ryanair flight, according to new Oxford University analysis.
Although Tom put more balls into his bag
than Harry put into his bag, each
of them calculated that if he picked four balls out
of his bag simultaneously at
random there was a 1 in X
chance that all four would be coloured.
In a
random effects analysis, ALE scores were tested against a null hypothesis
of random distribution across the brain, thereby identifying those regions where empirical ALE values were higher
than could be expected by
chance.
Based on the proportions
of SNP variants in the human population as estimated from a population - level mitochondrial database (mtDB)[50], the probability
of sharing all 6 SNPs in common between VP42 and LNCaP by
random chance alone is estimated at less
than 0.00146 %.
This is a
random event, and the
chance of it happening again is no higher
than normal.
If you simply take the time and effort to structure your plan using this «sustainability» mindset (rather
than just jumping head - first into some
random diet based around a bunch
of rules that may or may not fit your lifestyle or preferences), your
chances for long term muscle building and fat burning success will be exponentially higher.
If you want to truly, finally transform your physique completely to overcome your potentially poor muscle gain genetics and leave your hardgainer status behind for good (which is 100 % possible no matter what others may have wrongly told you), asking advice on bodybuilding from any
random personal trainer or some big guy at the gym who likely has better muscle gain genetics
than you (or unnatural help in some cases if we're being honest) isn't the smartest course
of action because
chances are they don't understand how you can fully transform your physique as they weren't a hardgainer themselves in the first place.
Key Insight: As per one
of the largest studies on the ketogenic diet, the rate
of hypothyroidism among children was 20,800 % higher
than would be expected from simple,
random chance.
This is best achieved through
random assignment to treatment conditions, which assures (within the margin
of error associated with the sample size) that differences between groups
of subjects other
than their experience
of treatment are evened out by the laws
of chance.
They concluded that the net excess returns (after fees)
of the active fund management community were no better
than what would be expected by
random chance.
As a result, you'll notice that many
of these tasks focus on skill and execution rather
than depending on
random chance.
But ultimately I think studies like the one by Knutson et al. shown in Fig. 1 are more useful
than working on a single case study where a lot
of random chance is involved.
The fact that every year this decade except 2008 has been among the 10 warmest and that 17
of the top 20 hotest years on record have been in the past 20 years (the others were all in the»80s) precludes
random chance at better
than 95 % confidence even with red or pink noise!
However games which introduce randomly generated elements, (through use
of a
random number generator) may lead to the game having more
than an insignificant level
of chance.
And while nothing can be completely guaranteed in the stock market, investors who diversify their holdings in the markets and hold them for the long term tend to have a better
chance of making money
than those who buy and sell
random securities in the short term hoping to «strike it rich».
But in a study where Gottman's videos were shown to clergymen, and therapists, and other people who you would assume would be able to identify this kind
of thing, they were unable to predict better
than random chance which couples eventually divorced.
- one month
of random home value fluctuations is going to be more
than $ 500, meaning it is within the margin
of error where
random chance means far more
than what is being negotiated over, meaning it is statistically equal to zero dollars.