Sentences with phrase «than chance in»

Short (hours and days) medium (weeks and months) and long term (decades) forecasts are all wrong, being close to or less than chance in almost every case.

Even the control - group students did much better than chance in picking the correct answer out of four multiple - choice options for each question.

The control - group performance was hardly better than chance in identifying factual information about these paintings, but they never had the opportunity to learn the material.

Interestingly, the team found that radiologists could do better than chance in discriminating breast cancer cases from normal tissue, even when the images of abnormal breast tissue did not directly capture a cancerous lesion or when those images were taken from the contralateral breast (the breast on the other side of the body) of a woman with breast cancer.

In fact, only the six orangutans tested performed better than chance in the egocentric condition.

And, remarkably, this so - called «convergent» evolution happened at least eight times across three different phyla, or animal groups, supporting the belief that necessity played a larger role than chance in developing this trait.

Not exact matches

I put more faith in futures markets than in private sector and budgetary forecasts, but given the recent escalation of oil prices, there is a reasonable chance prices end up matching or exceeding the estimates in Budget 2016.

Entrepreneurs tend to be an action - oriented, onwards - and - upwards lot — a longitudinal study published by the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2014 associated successful entrepreneurs with higher - than - normal levels of hardiness, resourcefulness and optimism — meaning that when their venture fails, there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to rebound quickly, with a nifty second - act tale of adversity to slot into their narrative.

McKay has been immersed in that culture for more than two decades, and chances are he'll continue to live and breathe it.

With 6,900 employers associated with the school — more than any other university in Canada — there's a good chance you'll find a spot.

Chances of getting hit are less than one in a trillion, reports CNBC's Morgan Brennan, with a look at the growing threat of space junk landing on the planet.

Bloomberg attributes this boost to a recent surge in tech companies acquiring funding for the first time, indicating that investors are more willing than ever to take chances on startups.

For me, it's a chance to learn from some of the best and make some personal connections in a more intimate setting than a BlogWorld - type event typically offers.

I am more than willing to give a second chance to Mark in this fight's critical hour.»

«I am more than willing to give a second chance to Mark in this fight's critical hour,» says Andrew Lee, cofounder and chairman of London Trust Media, who also briefly ran Mt. Gox's U.S. operations.

Agnieszka believes that finding the right team, sharing common goals — more than dreams of venture capital - results in the best chance of creating a successful company.

«Given France's cultural ties and economic ties around the emerging markets and the presence of major international French banks already in London and internationally and large pension funds like Amundi, I think France and Paris have a great chance of becoming even more of an international market than it already is,» he said.

At stake is more than $ 20,000 in cash prizes, as well as a chance to have a private dinner with Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Your chances of surviving cardiac arrest — which can strike in healthy people, and kills more Americans each year than Alzheimer's, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, diabetes, HIV, car crashes, prostate cancer, and suicides combined — vary immensely based on your zip code.

But the numbers drop pretty fast when certain niceties are specified — such as $ 100,000 - and - up price tags, the likelihood of severe motion sickness, dizziness, and acceleration - induced unconsciousness, as well as an unknown but certainly less than trivial chance of being incinerated in a rocket explosion or errant atmospheric reentry.

Chances are you'd go with the latter, in part because it's more intimate but also because being one of 250 is more appealing than being one of 50,000.

If your business has a better «onboarding» process than your competitors, I guarantee you will have far greater word of mouth (and word of mouse) and just as importantly, you will build much stronger relationships with these new customers that will reduce the chances of losing them way too soon in the business relationship.

Don't put anything in writing that you wouldn't want to see widely published, because there's a chance that someone other than the intended recipient will see it.

If you live in a first world country, you more than likely have a chance to take advantage of these various high - tech services.

The truth of the matter is that Google has never in its history promised websites anything more than a fair chance at a good rank using proper SEO.

In that sense I may be a fool, but if I am, I'm offering you the chance to be wise and learn from my mistakes rather than repeating them.

If someone includes a picture in a tweet, this more than doubles the chances of a retweet, Enge's blog post revealed.

Chances are, the more melanin you have, the less likely you would show up as anything more attractive than a smudge, a muddy smirk — or worse, a lurking presence — as you hovered in the back row of the chess club photo.

«A lot of things have to line up, and if they do, I feel in my heart a franchisee has a better chance of success than an independent startup.

If you run a business, there's a good chance you're putting in more than 40 hours.

You may be doing great, but the chances of your getting promoted in less than a year or two are pretty slim.

So in practice, if you are young software developer or entrepreneur in San Francisco, you can choose to work at a start - up that will have a more than 50 percent chance of going out of business in the next 18 months without risking the embarrassment of running out of money and having to move back in with your parents.

The average buyer doesn't want to get into a big outlay when there's a chance they won't like their purchase, or that something more desirable is soon going to come along, which is more than likely in the fast - changing technology world.

Further, there's a good chance the hot hand is more substantial than we estimate due to another subtle statistical issue called «measurement error,» which we discuss in the appendix of our paper.

Plank likes his chances, in part because the wide appeal of Under Armour's locker - room aesthetic and barking brand voice could transfer to any number of connected products (think: Future Girl), but also because he now has more fitness data about users than even the leading tech companies.

Most of the public, who have never had the chance to invest in a private company, may expect a financial return faster than is the norm in the startup world.

Politicians tell a lot of stories in their campaign speeches, and there's a not - so - secret reason why: if you convey your message through a dynamic story or metaphor, it has a better chance of resonating with your audience than if you were to simply state the facts.

The chance the chosen flip is a heads - equal to the percentage of heads in the bucket - we claim is less than 50 percent.

However, retirement is more complicated than most people think, and Gen Xers» confidence in their ability to manage their own finances may be impeding their chances of reaching a fully secure retirement.

I know people at Nike's ad agencies who are witnessing firsthand how much of their budget is going toward social and away from traditional media, because it's more measurable, controllable, and has a better chance to become viral than anything in a print ad.

Marzilli told Business Insider that, while YouGov didn't measure exactly why some chains garner more loyalty than others, people may be more likely to recommend In - N - Out because it presents a chance to brag that they've had the chance to visit — an opportunity you would only get if you're on the West Coast.

Among the data's revelations are that in many parts of the Deep South, people have less than a 5 % chance of going from the bottom income level to the top.

First of all, I think that properties like Gizmodo and Lifehacker and Deadspin and Jezebel have a much better chance of prospering in this new world than general news brands, news and media brands.

Those making $ 5 million to $ 10 million faced a more than 1 in 10 chance.

But having a monthly outing or engaging in some offsite socializing can give team members a chance to appreciate one another for more than just the job they do.

Meanwhile, in many places in the Mountain West region, such as Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado, people have more than a 16 % chance of accomplishing the feat.

In a generational research report that came out recently, it was shown that Millennials had lower chances to contribute to their 401 (k) plans, than their Baby Boomer and Generation X peers.

Salaries have soared by more than 50 % in the last five years, but the number of available posts has remained stagnant at around 4,200, so chances are the only airplanes you'll get to order around are the paper variety.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis provides insight to the CNBC survey results ahead of the OPEC ministers meeting in Vienna tomorrow, in which more than 70 percent of respondents think there is a zero to ten percent chance of a production freeze.

For that reason, you might actually have a better chance of getting venture capital in San Diego than you would in New York.