The advantages of being here are obvious – vastly more talent, capital, experience, and resources than anywhere else – but we often forget that most of us started companies simply as a vehicle to get our (hopefully) world-changing products to market.
Different assumptions about the meaning of missing values taken by researchers analyzing the same and/or nearly the same accident data sets resulted in vastly different distribution of the Obvious Clues. Figure 1 shows the distribution of obvious clues in US avalanche accidents reported when accidents with missing values are either included or excluded.
But that's because there is an obvious need for vastly more residential and commercial construction in the region: which is an extraordinarily rich, productive, export-intensive place!The most straightforward answer to the puzzle, in my view, is simply to acknowledge that there isn't one clear source of excess savings with one clear macroeconomic policy response.
In obvious ways these two women were poles apart, from vastly different social, cultural and domestic backgrounds, and with vastly different abilities and interests.
It is obvious, without the need for scientific research, that vastly more of the work of the human mind is unconscious or automatic in this sense than conscious and deliberate.
This is stating the obvious, but the way people use smartphones and tablets is vastly different from the way they manipulate keyboards and mice.
If you did, then you know that it brought up colossal cases of genocide denial, vastly beyond anything that concerns you, and vastly more important as well for obvious reasons.
In the pale grass blue butterfly, the most obvious effect of colder temperatures in the northern environment is to vastly increase variation in wing spot patterns [ 1].
Intrinsic dispersal restrictions are obvious in this species, but have not prevented F. ceranoides from vastly expanding its range northwards following the last glaciation, implying that additional factors are responsible for the lack of connectivity between neighbouring southern populations.
Whether it's control over something as obvious as the car we're in, or something less obvious but vastly more important to our sense of safety and well-being - our lives, our futures, "our destinies" - the phenomenon is the same.
