There's a line of thought out there, which I think is plausible, which says that ISIS and its previous incarnation, going back to 2004, 2005, 2006, that what they were very good at was operating in a state of war at sowing chaos, and using that chaos to draw recruits and function as a group.
However, an earlier hypothesis of Wickramasinghe's that the molecular building blocks of life could have been brought to Earth by comets is now widely thought plausible.
However other variables may also be important, depending on range of β2 thought plausible.
In the NICE analysis, bleeding risk associated with aspirin (based on data from ten knee replacement studies) was not thought plausible, as the risk was low.
For example, if p values of α and q lags of PM2.5 were thought plausible, then K = p × q candidate models could be fitted and assessed with respect to some model selection criterion.
Rather, I think it is plausible that the appropriate real interest rate for the economy might be very low for years to come.
"I don't believe that Putin organised this – given the professionalism of the attack, I think the more plausible theory is that people in the security services are involved," Mr Soldatov said.
And I think it's plausible that had the bill passed on the 29th, much of the chaos that followed over the next couple of months could have been averted.
Similarly, I think it's plausible that the book's heroes are drawn relatively thinly not because Merrill is insufficiently attuned to their humanity but, rather, because she takes it absolutely for granted, and expects us to do the same.
Mr Surowiecki writes:In effect, the House's failure to pass the TARP demolished investors' confidence that they could rely on the government to act, and massively amplified the sense of panic that Lehman's failure caused...I think it's plausible that had the bill passed on the 29th, much of the chaos that followed over the next couple of months could have been averted.
