Sentences with phrase «to be due to chance»

To give you a mathematical idea of how likely it is that the difference is due to chance alone?

But he didn't think the apparent existence of a poker elite was due to chance.

We could reasonably believe that a large portion of the variation in cultural capital among twins was due to chance and not differences in their upbringing or ability.

The excess had a statistical significance of 2.6 sigma, meaning there is about a 0.5 percent probability that the result is due to chance.

It's worth noting though that the more careful papers mentioned that the results are noisy and could easily be due to chance and the particular time period and many of the early SRIs were fairly similar so many could have enjoyed the same out - performance.

Take a paper released last fall by researchers at Texas A&M University that suggests that most of the performance factors attributed to an individual CEO «could actually be due to chance» — factors outside of their control.

A couple of research papers indicated only a decrease in abortion rates that is statistically insignificant (i.e. it could have been due to chance rather than the change in the law), but these have tended to analyse data on abortion rates for all ages, not specifically teenage abortion rates.

In physics terms, evidence for a new particle requires a «3 - sigma» measurement, corresponding to a 1 - in - 740 chance that a random fluke could explain the observations, and a claim of discovery requires a 5 - sigma effect, or a 1 - in — 3.5 million shot that the observations are due to chance.

But another hypothesis holds that folktales mutate and evolve so quickly that all of these stories emerged and evolved independently from each other; their similarities are due to chance and the universality of a world filled with wild animals and vulnerable children.

In some cases, the co-occurrence of giftedness and dyslexia is due to chance or naturally occurring variations in human neurology

A second statistical analysis showed that this increase also is very unlikely to be due to chance weather variations alone, such as El Ninos or La Ninas.

When we look at the two - parent recipient families only, those eligible for the MFIP program appear to be less likely to get divorced, but the finding is not statistically significant until the last year of follow - up, leaving open the possibility that the pattern we see could still be due to chance.

Often it is explained «there is only a five percent chance that this experiment's results were due to chance.»

Markus Fitza, a professor of management at Texas A&M and the person who led the study, found that over 70 % of the CEO effect measured by past studies could be due to chance.

This increased risk is unlikely to be due to chance.»

The researchers observed a similar association for dog allergen, although it was not statistically significant, meaning it could be due to chance.

That is, if you're scanning millions of data points looking for variation, you're going to find certain abnormalities that are due to chance and are unrelated to the disease or question at hand.

The researchers found that some of the evidence for rising dino diversity in the Cretaceous period came from sampling bias; more fossils of different species are available from the period than from earlier periods — a factor that could be due to chance.

Some patients on the lower dose of the drug saw some improvements on a cognitive test over those who got the placebo, but the small differences could have been due to chance.

When rarely - used verbs changed, that replacement was more likely to be due to chance.

«In any game where returns are highly volatile, and there is a reasonable expectation that skill plays a role, delusions of expertise may come into play,» comments Browne, who adds, «In horse betting in particular, it appears that a gambler may easily be misled into believing that an effective winning strategy had been identified, when in fact it was due to chance alone.»

There was a suggestion of increased ASD risk among children whose mothers received an influenza vaccination in their first trimester, but the association was not statistically significant after adjusting for multiple comparisons, indicating that the finding could be due to chance.

«In our paper we tried to account for the fact that differences in rates of complications on different days may be due to chance, or that births on certain days are more complicated in some way,» Aylin said.

A statistical analysis showed that the differences between the low - fat and nut - rich diets could have been due to chance.

The improvement could simply have been due to chance.

When «only 20 or so in each sector» were opening, there is a problem with small sample sizes and that in research such as that done by Policy Exchange researchers «never report things like statistical significance» and whether the results could have been due to chance.

Is this due to chance?

I've done well, but I know that it might be due to chance.