Furthermore, because of the nature of the statistical tests used by experimenters, a very small proportion of all experiments conducted will yield an overall statistically significant result ( suggesting that clairvoyance took place at above-chance levels ), again simply because of chance.

For example in a paper reporting on a study involving human subjects, there typically appears a table giving the overall sample size, sample sizes in important subgroups ( e. g., for each treatment or exposure group ), and demographic or clinical characteristics such as the average age, the proportion of subjects of each sex, and the proportion of subjects with related comorbidities.

However the overall proportion of stars with planets is uncertain because not all planets can yet be detected.

In reality, government loans to commercial banks make up a tiny proportion of the overall funding of commercial banks, and as a consequence, it can be ineffective at times when the degree of economic contraction is significant.

Because of this sensitivity to infant mortality, simple life expectancy at age zero can be subject to gross misinterpretation, leading one to believe that a population with a low overall life expectancy will necessarily have a small proportion of older people.

* Employment may fall more than in proportion to the wage increase, thereby reducing overall earnings ;

Attaining the support of the Senate can be more difficult as government usually lacks an absolute majority because the Senate's representation is based on overall proportion of votes and often includes minor parties.

In Nepal, somewhat larger male ranges have been found at about, while female ranges at ; female home ranges decreased to when young cubs were present, while the sexual difference in range size seemed to be in positive proportion to overall increase.

This was characterised by the real incomes of employees increasing more sharply than incomes from entrepreneurial work, with the proportion of employees ’ incomes in the overall national income rising from 65 % to 70 % between 1969 and 1973, while the proportion of income from entrepreneurial work and property fell over that same period from just under 35 % to 30 .%

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Having this simple but essential mathematical proportion at hand – which proved the overall impossible aforementioned role of the liver – Harvey went on to prove how the blood circulated in a circle by means of countless experiments initially done on serpents and fish: tying their veins and arteries in separate periods of time, Harvey noticed the modifications which occurred ; indeed, as he tied the veins, the heart would become empty, while as he did the same to the arteries, the organ would swell up.

* A higher degree of environmental specialisation, including a higher proportion of endemic species in an overall depauperate community ;

So the term urbanisation can represent the level of urban relative to overall population, or it can represent the rate at which the urban proportion is increasing.

The impact on Broken Hill's economy of the shrinking mining industry and the more efficient mining rates resulted in a higher proportion of part-time employment, higher employment participation rate by females, a general reduction in overall household incomes, and an increase in the average age of the populace as the young leave seeking work.

MMP is similar to other forms of proportional representation ( PR ) in that the overall total of party members in the elected body is intended to mirror the overall proportion of votes received ; it differs by including a set of members elected by geographic constituency who are deducted from the party totals so as to maintain overall proportionality.

Compared to the United Kingdom the Harborough district has a greater proportion of smaller organisations with fewer than 10 employees ; 87. 16 % vs. 82. 8 % in the UK overall.

Big business is not taxed in proportion to its capacity and output, and the disproportionate burden falls on small and medium size businesses.

As a rule, brain size increases with body size, but not in a simple linear proportion.

" ... perks do not rise in proportion to bank size.

The Dodo differed from other pigeons mainly in the small size of the wings and the large size of the beak in proportion to the rest of the cranium.

When people are asked to make up a random-looking sequence of coin tosses, they tend to make sequences where the proportion of heads to tails stays closer to 0. 5 in any short segment than would be predicted by chance ( insensitivity to sample size ); Kahneman and Tversky interpret this to mean that people believe short sequences of random events should be representative of longer ones.

The German army, mindful of the steadily increasing proportion of spending going to the navy, demanded an increase of 136, 000 men to bring its size closer to that of France.

The concept is useful in describing inequality among the size of individuals in ecology, and in studies of biodiversity, where cumulative proportion of species is plotted against cumulative proportion of individuals.

Once it is cooked, the dried pasta will usually increase in size by double of its original proportion.

Today, with a growing regional profile, a participant in the SFOR peacekeeping deployment in Bosnia and the KFOR deployment in Kosovo, and a charter World Trade Organization member, Slovenia plays a role on the world stage quite out of proportion to its small size.

For instance, if the population consists of 60 % in the male stratum and 40 % in the female stratum, then the relative size of the two samples ( three males, two females ) should reflect this proportion.

In general the size of the sample in each stratum is taken in proportion to the size of the stratum.

The U. S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted in 2007 by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and featuring a sample size of over 35, 000, puts the proportion of American adults identifying as Unitarian Universalist at 0. 3 %.

The frequency and size of beachings around the world, recorded over the last 1, 000 years in religious tracts and more recently in scientific surveys, have been used to estimate the population of various whale species by assuming that the proportion of the total whale population beaching in any one year is constant.

The wolverine has a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times its size.

Typical fuel pellets are about the size of a pinhead and contain around 10 milligrams of fuel: in practice, only a small proportion of this fuel will undergo fusion, but if all this fuel were consumed it would release the energy equivalent to burning a barrel of oil.

In many eukaryotes, up to 99 % of an organism's total genome size is noncoding DNA, although the amount of noncoding DNA, and the proportion of coding versus noncoding DNA varies greatly between species.

At the same time, a major proportion of these young men and women see religion as a means of personal adjustment, an anchor for family life, a source of emotional security.

Ten students act as managers for a high-school football team, and of these managers a proportion P are licensed drivers.

A high proportion of the collection comes from tombs or contexts associated with the cult of the dead, and it is these pieces, in particular the mummies, that remain among the most eagerly sought after exhibits by visitors to the Museum.

While these included elite Bersaglieri, Alpini and Cacciatori units, a large proportion of the troops were inexperienced conscripts recently drafted from metropolitan regiments in Italy into newly formed " di formazione " battalions for service in Africa.

In these areas he concluded that the recent strata ( rock layers ) could be categorized according to the number and proportion of marine shells encased within.

These terms in the apparent acceleration are independent of mass ; so it appears that each of these fictitious forces, like gravity, pulls on an object in proportion to its mass.

A large proportion of these original settlers came from Old Saxony.

When only a small proportion of the molecules meet these criteria, the rate of evaporation is low.

Because of the importance of air superiority, since the dawn of aerial combat armed forces have constantly competed to develop technologically superior fighters and to deploy these fighters in greater numbers, and fielding a viable fighter fleet consumes a substantial proportion of the defense budgets of modern armed forces.

A large proportion of the creatures traditionally called " warm-blooded ", such as mammals and birds, fit all three of these categories.

The program, however, has been controversial with critics accusing the Indonesian Government of trying to use these migrants to reduce the proportion of native populations in receiving areas, in order to weaken separatist movements.

Flax and cotton were also used for fine materials, but the processing was difficult because of the pre-processing needed, and thus goods in these materials made only a small proportion of the output.

Again, on average the worker can transfer no more than the value of these means of labor previously possessed to the finished cup of coffee So the value of coffee produced in a day equals the sum of both the value of the means of labor — this constant capital — and the value newly added by the worker in proportion to the duration and intensity of their work.

The term " English " or " Welsh " longbow is a modern usage to distinguish these bows from other longbows, though in fact identical bows were used across northern and western Europe ; indeed a very large proportion of yew bowstaves were imported from Spain from the fourteenth century onward, if not earlier.

The costs of this Commission are met by all these countries, in proportion of their own territory into the basin of the Meuse: The Netherlands and Wallonia 30 %, France 15 %, Germany 14. 5 %, Flanders 5 %, Brussels 4. 5 %, Kingdom of Belgium and Luxemburg 0. 5 %.

If the traits that give these individuals a reproductive advantage are also heritable, that is, passed from parent to child, then there will be a slightly higher proportion of fast rabbits or efficient algae in the next generation.

For two centuries Euclid had been taught from two Latin translations taken from an Arabic source ; these contained errors in Book V, the Eudoxian theory of proportion, which rendered it unusable.

In these systems, parties make lists of candidates to be elected, and seats get allocated to each party in proportion to the number of votes the party receives.

In order to raise funds for these and similar objects, he confiscated a large proportion of the houses and properties throughout the states of the Church.

Like RF, these tests are positive in only a proportion ( 67 %) of all RA cases, but are rarely positive if RA is not present, giving it a specificity of around 95 %.

The white adult male population in 1913 numbered over 3, 500 ( exclusive of garrison ), a large proportion of these would be available for military duties.

It is therefore common to exempt food, utilities and other necessities from sales taxes, since poor people spend a higher proportion of their incomes on these commodities, so such exemptions make the tax more progressive.

In general, these conditions are met within the seasonally dry tropics and subtropics in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, but a large proportion of the cotton grown today is cultivated in areas with less rainfall that obtain the water from irrigation.

In South Australian English however there is a high proportion of people who use the broad / aː / vowel from the word " cart " in these words.