If the question was posed in more general terms, such as running experiments with deficient methods, failing to report deficiencies or misrepresenting data, the straight average suggested that 46% of researchers had seen others get up to such shenanigans.
Half of those over 75 in hospital are reckoned to be nutrient-deficient, as are many obese people.Nutrient deficiency is not easy to cure.
Problem: More than 3 million children in Africa suffer from blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency; in Uganda it is estimated that 28% of children are deficient.
From that, we can extrapolate that many adolescent girls are also iron deficient to the point of being anaemic; more so than adolescent boys, because of monthly blood loss due to menstruation.
Frustration with Conservative policy over Gaza was the trigger, but dismay at what she sees as a morally deficient Middle East policy would not have driven her out of government if she had felt valued from within.
Evenings out turn into an anguished dilemma, particularly for those of us deficient in the jam-making department.
The idea that hyper-low interest rates are merely symptoms of deficient demand or financial repression is dangerously simplistic.
Eurovision is the manifestation of that childhood dream – a world of pure, uninhibited, yet talent-deficient self expression; too much eyeliner and vicious backcombing.
The recent divergence between America's employment and output suggests the country faces not just deficient demand but also enfeebled supply, as more people working without more output means lower productivity.
More than five years after the collapse of a bridge in Minnesota that claimed 13 lives and prompted pledges to speed up repairs, almost 70,000 other bridges, or roughly 11% of the total, are still rated as "structurally deficient" by the Federal Highway Administration.
Peter Wallison says:Mortgage brokers--even predatory ones--cannot create and sell deficient mortgages unless they have willing buyers, and it turns out that their main customers were government agencies or companies and banks required by government regulations to purchase these junk loans.
