Evidence of risk aversion in laboratory settings over small stakes leads to a priori implausible levels of risk aversion over large stakes under certain assumptions.
The application of the Zimbabwe FRR produced implausible levels of incidence, at levels approximately 30 40% of prevalence, in all three surveys.
From this sample, 18 individuals who had implausible levels of adiponectin (>100 μg/ml) or leptin (>180 ng/ml) and 64 with treated diabetes were excluded, leaving a final sample of 1,176 participants.
Ms. Linrud hoped that the water would not climb to the once-implausible level of the second story, where many of her mother's possessions were still stacked from the first evacuation.
While data have shown that some people may drink more than 150 grams of alcohol on any given day, it seemed implausible that this level of consumption could be maintained during the biological latency period where alcohol consumption leads to the incidence and development of a disease, and mortality from the disease.
And at least on the fact of it, it's highly implausible that our current level of serotonin is optimal.
23 Although underascertainment of comorbidity is an issue in this study, it seems implausible that the levels of underascertainment would differ substantially between patients with first time ADR only and those with repeat ADRs.
For level of education, one value seemed implausible, so it was coded as missing.
"Delays in Athens Raise Concern on Olympic Security Readiness" (front page, July 3) raises a disproportionate level of fear and anxiety through some implausible terrorist plots suggested by unidentified foreign intelligence officials.
Yet, many would take it to be implausible to suppose that natural selection works at the level of individual mental representations.
