Sentences with phrase «very improbable»

Mothers were asked to indicate how probable (0 = very improbable to 3 = very probable) it was that they would use each reaction.

Baidu Jiasule is only one of the services that Baidu offers, and was only acquired by the company in August, so the reality is somewhat less game - changing than if Baidu as a whole has announced that it was integrating Bitcoin into all of its products, but this is nevertheless significant; Jiasule is a formal subsidiary of Baidu, so it is very improbable that the decision to accept Bitcoin had been made completely unilaterally by the Jiasule team without some kind of approval from its parent company.

Lollipop and marshmallow had been very improbable updates to Google's operating device.

But equally, from Bayes theorem, if an event is very improbable on the null hypothesis (say a 3.5 sigma event), then it's occurence is significantly stronger evidence for the hypothesis (that the mean is changing).

Reading up on what the IPCC actually wrote about solar makes the story look very improbable.

Paul — to add to my above comment, note that the Annan / Hargreaves paper indicates that even with a uniform prior down to zero, values << 1 deg C are very improbable.

It seems very improbable that simply hypothesizing such a law for convenience would be correct.

If the data are very improbable (usually defined as observed less than 5 % of the time), then the experimenter concludes that the null hypothesis is false.

In real life, it is very improbable that you will ever going to be in a room full of beautiful women, all of whom are single and looking for a man for a long term relationship.

The consequences of the very improbable transfer should be judged against the background of antibiotic resistance already present in intestinal bacteria.

Not impossible, but certainly very improbable at this point.

«Well, I do think it would be very improbable to do something like that again,» he began.

But he added as a good pragmatic empiricist, «We only assert this, that Success by unconverted Ministers» Preaching is very improbable, and very seldom happens, so far as we can gather.»

This comes through frequently in his Gospel exegesis, which gives little weight to Scriptural interpretation within Tradition: «Jesus preached the coming of the kingdom of God and it is very improbable that he gave precise instruction for future ecclesiastical discipline» (p. 41).

That these persons would have recognized themselves as «enemies of the cross» is very improbable.

That the Epistle of James was written to be thus published, however, that is, that it is an «epistle» in the literary sense of the word, is very improbable in view of its contents, which relate to no single subject or situation.

Yet the collisions or near misses dictated by these theories are inherently very improbable, perhaps only ten for the entire life of our galaxy during the past five billion years.32 With so few planets in existence, we could hardly assume that there would be much life elsewhere, at least not in our galaxy.

Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority, that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable.»

It is more probable that he should assume an appearance of ease, than that so very improbable a thing should be, as a man not afraid of going... into an unknown state.»

«I don't know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.»

Not exact matches

... if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery.

Life is extraordinarily complicated and improbable, and if conditions had been different in only the very smallest degree the universe would have been lifeless.

I do see a very delicate complex world that would be improbable to not be created.

The very idea that history should have a meaning strikes many of our contemporaries as highly improbable, maybe even nonsensical.

However, for every very rare improbable outcome benefiting somebody there is an equally rare improbable outcome ruining somebody's life, yes?

It could very well be that their improbable win over the division - leading Falcons last week ends up being a catalyst to change the fortunes of their season.

Due to the unrest, one can expect a very hostile atmosphere at the Emirates Stadium during the clash against Lincoln and star of the non-league side Luke Waterfall is hopeful that the unhappy Arsenal fans will indirectly help his side claim an improbable victory on the night.

As yet, Sharp has no answers to the questions about communication and career that her improbable creation inherently poses, but she is «cautiously optimistic,» «very excited about the possibilities,» and grateful for the opportunity «to pursue [her] passion,» she says.

(This is the opposite of the so - called normal distribution, where very large events are so exponentially improbable that, in practice, they never occur.)

An improbable event with very bad consequences (the high population scenario) is much more relevant for policy decisions than an improbable event in which impacts are less severe.

«If you discover something which, according to current scientific wisdom should be extremely improbable, you can come to one of two conclusions: either you just got very lucky, or you need to modify your theory,» Joseph Hennawi, an astronomer from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and lead author if the study, said in a statement.

To make up the rest of his tuition, Richie puts all of his money on the line at that very site in an online poker tournament, only to lose it all in several consecutive improbable losing games against the «house» opponent who seems to know just when to raise or fold.

With his typical off kilter style of jokes and improbable situations, there's plenty of laugh out loud moments to be had, particularly with Watiti favourite Rhys Darby, who manages to leave a solid impression and delivers the lines despite his very limited screentime, and late appearance.

It may be â $ œthe most eagerly awaited film of the yearâ $ but itâ $ ™ s also just another movie, in a very long series, about a man in a mask with pointy little ears, wearing a cape and speaking in an affected growl, having improbable adventures in a fictional universe, derived from a strip cartoon.

Last Time We Left 007...: Bond (Pierce Brosnan) was in bed with improbable nuclear physicist Christmas Jones (the awful Denise Richards) and uttered a particularly ribald one - liner, which, along with a killer opening and a deliciously villainous turn by Sophie Marceau, was one of the very few memorable aspects of 1999's otherwise messy and disappointing The World Is Not Enough.

It's highly entertaining, however improbable, and very funny.

Technology has a very strange habit of turning the impossible (or at the very least, the improbable) into reality.

- The Rhine, with its two very different banks: the right bank, animated and lined with beautiful buildings, and the left bank with its floodplains and improbable sheep overlooking the skyscrapers of big German companies.

Ours is a very «Insomniac» world where you travel around the globe to exotic locations where larger - than - life bad guys have established strongholds in sometimes improbable locations.

The improbable event exposed a peculiar and very different sort of isolation that New York chronically suffers in regarding itself as America's and the world's tastemaker.

At the very center of the canvas is a tiny image of an improbable landscape, which seems to fade helplessly, unable to cling to the surface.

An improbable event with very bad consequences (the high population scenario) is much more relevant for policy decisions than an improbable event in which impacts are less severe.

The thing is that the public's perception of risk is distorted, and they tend to over-react to catastrophic but improbable risks that are imminent while discounting very real risks in the «distant» (read > 5 years) future.

Sure there may be more for a period of time but it seems incredibly improbable to me the feedbacks are very high as the interia of the system must be enormous and the energy wasted in the exchange and short term movement must be enormous.

The climate alarmists claim that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels is a very significant such distortion, but as explained in my book, Environmentalism Gone Mad, they have failed to prove their improbable case.

That doesn't imply that the rare events or individually highly improbable outcomes would not sum to something very important, but obviously that must be explained more directly.

It doesn't take a very large particle size before the statistics make it vastly improbable for such a thing to occur.

The situation as I see it is opposite: Mainstream science acknowledges there is a large uncertainty in the net aerosol forcing, whereas Lindzen picks onevalue at the outer edge of the probability distribution function and builds his entire argument on that (rather improbable) value as if it's highly certain: His argument is implicitly built on high confidence / certainty that aerosol forcing is very low.

What is more, in the small print describing the assumptions of the «representative concentration pathways», it admits that the top of the range will only be reached if sensitivity to carbon dioxide is high (which is doubtful); if world population growth re-accelerates (which is unlikely); if carbon dioxide absorption by the oceans slows down (which is improbable); and if the world economy goes in a very odd direction, giving up gas but increasing coal use tenfold (which is implausible).