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And it has to be true for averages to work.
Think of this as good news: for everyone who dies in his or her forties, there must be three or four who make it into their eighties in order for the averages to work out.
If you bought stocks utterly at random last year — Amazon or AMR or American Home Products — and you bought enough of them for the law of averages to work, you made 26%.
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Gimeno, Añel's former Ph.D. adviser, partly attributes Añel's early success to "his great interest in and liking for the scientific endeavor, which prompt[s] him to dedicate amounts of time much greater than average to work".
GPs who did not originate from the UK were not more likely than average to work in rural areas.
As an example, he describes the situation in Rwanda, where doctors are offered salaries three or four times greater than the national average to work in the HIV/AIDS programme.
Providence, or just the law of averages, had to work in Haiti's favor eventually.
By the early 21st century the average to-work commute time for Americans was 24.4 minutes, and the bulk of this was done by automobile.
By the early 21st century the average to-work commute time for Americans was 26.9 minutes, and the bulk of this was done by automobile.
In 2014, the average journey to work for Beijing commuters was 19.2 km, taking 52 min, the longest average commute of any Chinese city [13].
I suspect the average journey to work was much shorter.
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