Confidence counts for a lot in markets, after all.
If confidence counts for anything, Noel sounds ready to take over the starring role.
"Vegan!" The crowds respond to her confidence, counting out each chanted repetition until she reaches 11 – the number of times her father said those same words as he struggled for oxygen on the Staten Island pavement.
In terms of this generation of athletes, I couldn't help but watch Chris Froome in his Tour de France stage last night (faltering, but so far ahead it didn't matter) and think how much confidence counts, and how much that's generated by believing that you're the sort of person, from the sort of stable, who wins this sort of thing.
But that's what confidence men count on, because they know that the most trusting among their clients will let their guards down.
Data are presented as the median (range), mean (standard deviation SD), t, coefficients (95% confidence interval CI), counts, or percentages.
The facts that it has been funded and staffed by conservatives and was floated with David Willetts even before the publication of the Browne Review and Comprehensive Spending Review do not lend confidence on either count.
"I have confidence in the count, my lack of confidence lies in other areas," says Caleb Faux, the executive director of the Hamilton County Democratic Party, citing the threat posed by Tea Party-trained official poll workers and assorted other vote-suppressing schemes in Ohio.
Table 1 lists the accession number, protein name, peptide count, confidence score, Anova value and fold change of individual proteins identified by mass spectrometry.
SD – standard deviation; CI – confidence interval 1 countount, plasma HIV-1 RNA, serum albumin were modeled as continuous variables, and the acute phase response was modeled as a dichotomous variable.
