The clinical course of Seurat's illness was over a period of 1 week, and his son died 2 weeks later, which makes acute epiglottitis caused by H. influenzae type b a less likely diagnosis.
The observation that the timing of the changes in the rate of increase of non-gas suicide (in 1997) preceded the start of the epidemic of charcoal burning suicide (in 1999) by two years, makes method substitution a less likely explanation, although both mechanisms may have contributed to observed trends.
This version of events is also supported by a rather less likely source — the renowned investigative journalist and feminist Lydia Cacho who has talked to Del Castillo and said that the only thing she can be accused of is being a bit naive.
Harming passers-by is less likely, the thinking goes, because a typical arrow has a range of no more than 30 yards, compared to a bullet's 200 yards or more.
A few story lines to watch Wednesday: Group A — Matchday 3 results Napoli 1, Bayern Munich 1 Manchester City 2, Villarreal 1 Bayern Munich will go through to the knockout stage with a win over visiting Napoli (which has never won on German soil) and a loss by Manchester City (a bit less likely, though not unthinkable) at Villarreal.
Some argue a return prepared by a professional is less likely to be audited, but there's little reliable data to support it.
An auditor who knows that his or her work will be reviewed by a competitor is less likely to take the comfortable way out, and, if the probing risks loss of the client, the firm knows that the client would have to move on anyway, to be replaced eventually by other clients in the rotation.
The inverse range principle states that the more information carried by a proposition, the less likely it is that the proposition is true.
However, 8 days later scientists lost contact with the bird, suggesting that the transmitter had fallen off (considered likely) or that he had been eaten by a predator (considered less likely).
Uncommercial books are by definition less likely to strike a common chord and, to me at least, are consequently more interesting.
