People rank the second description higher than the first, even though, logically, its likelihood is smaller, because it requires two things to be true — that Linda is a bank teller and that Linda is an active feminist — rather than one.
The aisles in its supermarkets were too small because it hadn't noticed that shopping in Brazil was a family outing, so aisles needed to accommodate grandma and the children as well.
On the first point, although China runs a large trade surplus with America, its total surplus is much smaller because it runs deficits with other countries.
George Sheldon, a Basel University professor of labour market and industrial economics, said that although the proposed minimum wage was very high, its negative impact would be small because it would apply only to a few people.
At first glance it seems a bit small because, put simply, it is.
How do you tell if something looks small because it is small, or because it is very far away?
We like to fixate on the small because it is more consoling.
Exelon's carbon footprint is relatively small, because it has many nuclear reactors, he said.
Things like that tend to "make the window look even smaller because it's so cluttered up," he said.
My instinct is to build small because it will be cheaper and more manageable to do by ourselves.
They love the fact that it's… well, not exactly dirty and small because it isn't – but because it's a football club.
