It all feels hypothetical.
You look West, towards New Zealand, and there's nothing, again, but the empty expanse of the Pacific, and somewhere within it a country that, in that moment, feels entirely hypothetical.
How, I ask, does Ms Teather feel about the hypothetical possibility that she'll have to defend academies in the Commons, should Mr Gove be indisposed?
If you're lucky enough not to live with chronic pain, and you don't know someone lost to addiction, this may feel distant and hypothetical.
We queried how comfortable physicians would feel prescribing a hypothetical cognitive enhancer to individuals who were 25, 45, or 65 years of age.
I now feel like taking this hypothetical boson (not the Prof) down a peg or two.
Next, we asked physicians to rate how comfortable they felt prescribing the hypothetical cognitive enhancer to three different patients: a 25-year-old, a 45-year-old, and a 65-year-old, all of whom were otherwise healthy, but had come reporting symptoms of age-related cognitive dysfunction.
Then, physicians were asked how comfortable they felt prescribing the hypothetical CE drug on a Likert scale (comfort level with anchors at 1 = very uncomfortable and 7 = very comfortable).
If you don't feel much empathy for that hypothetical lawyer, worth millions, just because he can't qualify for super-special treatment from banks, I don't blame you.
Only about 10% of her regular clients responded to the new law by deciding to stop using her services; the rest continue to come but feel very stressed by the hypothetical threat of prosecution.
