Participants in the cross-sectional survey were invited to peruse a list of possible motivations, and to tick one or more (if any) motivations which they thought were applicable to themselves, at the time that they attempted self-poisoning.
"What I've done now for politics at FiveThirtyEight is an approach that we think is applicable in a lot of areas.
Both concepts, I think, are applicable to the way we think about fantasy football, a game of gut-wrenching decisions that we strive to avoid, often to the detriment of our team.
"What we've done there, which I think is applicable in a lot of ways to the homeless system, is setting high expectations for people, supporting them as they try and reach those expectations, strongly supporting people who go to work, and having some consequences for people who fail to take advantage of some of the opportunities that we make available," he said.
"It's a novel immune system that we think is applicable to all mucosal surfaces, and it's one of the first examples of a direct symbiosis between phages and an animal host," Barr says.
A recent study from the Brookings Institution about the economy in Baltimore paints an image that I think is applicable in many regions of the country.
Reading Thieves of State, it didn't take long for my mind to wander from Kabul to Washington, from a place where American-funded corruption was an open secret to a place where few would think it applicable.
"What I've done now with politics at FiveThirtyEight is an approach we think is applicable to lots of areas," Silver said, adding there's potential in business, economics, weather, health, education, technology and culture.
(Here I'd like to alert you all to a fabulous Twitter feed called TimGunnHaikus. A sample: Oh no! Second look?!?!/ Hey designers-have you not/ seen this show before?... which I think is applicable here as well).
What I'd like you to do is to go through the 11 different dimensions and for each of the cells in the columns for those dimensions, to put a circle around those cells which you think are applicable to this practice.
