If 4 of your friends are rich, successful and/ or influential chances are you are going to be the fifth.
Their apparent finding may be an artefact of having conducted multiple analyses, having been misled by outliers or influential points, chance or by assuming effect modification without having tested for it.
In their influential book From Chance to Choice, Buchanan et al. (2000) repeat the assertion that there would be excessive social costs in reconstructing society to permit the full participation of people with significant cognitive impairments.
If the Bulldogs can starve West Coast of possession, play the game at their tempo and quieten an influential crowd early, the chances of an upset will increase.
The visitors created two great chances - influential duo Gylfi Sigurdsson and Ki Sung-Yueng forcing Asmir Begovic into action - before they were awarded a penalty themselves.
"And here's a chance to be influential with those values that are meaningful to me".
Just when their country has the chance to become influential in the world, they appear introverted and unable to see the big picture.
But if the United States could not do that on behalf of Haiti, poorer, less influential nations would have little chance of tracking down counterfeiters.
Fringe benefits often include playing privileges on Mondays (when most clubs are closed) and the chance to meet influential members who might come in handy when searching for a college or a job.
Sunday's election result has raised high hopes among the public that the political situation will return to normal as, with an absolute majority for Pheu Thai, there would be no chance of any influential group blocking the party from taking the helm of government.
A significant increase of 17.56% was observed in internal locus of control, a decrease of 4.67% in the perception that chance played an influential part in the individuals' lives (table 5).
