Sentence examples for doubling the likelihood from inspiring English sources

In fact, a recent meta-analysis of 42 studies involving over 22,000 participants concluded that these few words, placed at the end of a request, are a highly effective way to gain compliance, doubling the likelihood of people saying "yes".

Boaz et al. (abstract 1,724) compared 100 type 2 diabetic patients who had lost weight with 102 patients who had no weight loss history, finding that 89% versus 72% had taken anti-inflammatory agents, with exposure to these agents more than doubling the likelihood of weight loss.

Sugar consumption doubled the likelihood of death from heart disease in the top fifth of the range studied.

After last summer's devastating floods in Baton Rouge, climatologists estimated that the changing environment had probably doubled the likelihood that a calamitous storm would strike in a particular year.

Stress chemicals triggered by being made redundant or getting divorced can also double the likelihood of death from heart disease or stroke.

Having young children nearly doubles the likelihood that the average family in bankruptcy will continue making mortgage payments — to keep the children in the same school and stay in the same neighborhood.

Heat-trapping pollution at least doubled the likelihood of the infamous European heat wave that killed more than 30,000 people during the summer of 2003, according to a study in the journal Nature in 2004.

Another study, published this month in Pediatrics, using a random cross-section of American children, showed that an elevated level of a particular pesticide residue nearly doubled the likelihood that a child would have A.D.H.D. "The size of this deficit is educationally meaningful in the early preschool years," Virginia Rauh, the leader of Columbia's research, said.

By contrast, when Ariely and colleagues created an online "virtual dating site" where daters used instant-messaging to share an experience found on the site, like a movie clip or a piece of abstract art, this more relevant insight into potential mates doubled the likelihood of a real-world date.

Being aged 85 and older or being female doubled the likelihood that a fall would result in an injury.

Technology validation and prototyping reduces investor uncertainty and has been shown to double the likelihood of investments and traversing the valley of death to a successful exit.