So when a protection fails or is overtopped by an exceptional events, consequences are larger.
As a result, the model predicts that disaster frequency decreases with economic growth, but that consequences are larger when a disaster occurs.
Drug companies must still worry: Is gene therapy safe for business, or is it, like Rasputin, a treatment whose potential consequences are larger and more sinister than the disease it treats?
The onset of the PETM was rapid, occurring within a few thousand years, and the ecological consequences were large, with widespread extinctions in both marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
The evidence of concussions' debilitating consequences is large, and growing, and the stories of destroyed lives and families – impoverished by medical debt and wracked by varied, mutable symptoms – are terrifying and tragic.
Given the prevalence of atherosclerotic disease, the potential impact of aspirin resistance on all its clinical consequences is large.
When the net benefit (i.e. the difference between the desirable and undesirable consequences) is large in relation to the costs, we are more confident about a decision.
Professor Autor said in an interview that he was intrigued by evidence suggesting the consequences were larger for boys than girls, including one study finding that single mothers spent an hour less per week with their sons than with their daughters.
The primary argument that the instructor gave me was that even if a student has "inadvertently" cheated through an initially casual reference, the consequence was large and irrevocable -- forming an indelible mark on the academic record.
But the financial and human consequences are also large when evidence exists but is not collected.
