Category 2 refers to a low-risk isolated incident, while category 4, the most serious, means animals were subjected to "avoidable pain, distress or suffering".
Participants rated the high media frequency diseases as significantly more serious (mean = 7.98, SD = 0.174), than low media frequency conditions (mean = 6.68, SD = 0.316, on a 10-point scale) [F (1, 164) = 12.14, p<0.001].
As intended, responders rated diarrhoea as less serious (mean score 2.9, standard deviation [SD] 1.99) than dizziness (mean score 5.22, SD 2.09) or chest pain (mean score 8.65, SD 1.65).
Some updates are silly, but some are far more serious and meant for good.
Charles Clarke, David Blunkett – even mild John Hutton had a serious mean streak.
Clearly this point-scoring theatre is outmoded as a serious means of problem-solving in the 21st century.
Being serious means going into Iraqi Army ammunition depots to find evidence of recently removed missile warheads.
Most ranches are run as a lifestyle, not as a serious means of production, a source of taxes or a source of jobs.
Despite the undeniable cuteness of ruby-throated hummingbirds (only the male has the red throat), Mr. Story reports that they pack a serious mean streak.
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band", for instance, offers the reader no serious means of guessing the outcome; which depends, incidentally, on the hitherto undiscovered poison of a non-existent snake called the "swamp adder".
