The findings suggest that lawyers may not be explaining the odds to their clients — or that clients are not listening to their lawyers.
For reasons John Cassidy crisply explains, the odds are against Obama, against those Sikhs and shoppers and street-corner kids, against the majority of citizens who want something done about the gun plague.
Or as Ron Reardon, a patent agent who was a guest speaker that evening, explained, the odds of making money "aren't good — 1 in 100, 1 in 1000, I'm not sure — but they are better than the lottery".
In all, 40 (77%) of the patient-information documents described the probability of receiving placebo via a statement that the subjects will have a 50% chance of receiving the study drug and a 50% chance of getting the placebo, while one statement explained: 'The odds of receiving the placebo are one to three'.
However, a naïve population does not explain the high odds for acquiring coccidioidomycosis at prison X (independent of age and race) compared to the odds at nearby prison Y. Nor does a naïve population explain the very high rates of coccidioidomycosis in the cities of prisons X and Y compared with their surrounding counties.
The ICU was more often involved in patient care in the LUMC, which might explain the higher odds for full compliance, consistent with the findings of Mikkelson and colleagues who showed that involvement of a severe sepsis service was associated with better compliance with early goal-directed therapy [22].
Hence erythrocyte aging cannot explain the higher odds for blood transfusion in these patients.
This may explain the "protective" odds ratios we found for diabetes, CAD, hypertension, and osteoarthritis.
Thus, game hunting may only partially explain the increased odds of seropositivity in this group of middle-aged adults.
Moreover, the winner's curse and shrinkage to the mean (22, 25, 26) could explain the smaller odds ratios that we estimated from the replication data (Table 2).
