Conservatives are twice as likely as liberals to be married and twice as likely to attend church every week.
Whether consciously or unconsciously, experience teaches us all that verbal communication is just as likely to conceal as it is to reveal.
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Unmarried women were five times as likely to live in poverty as married men and four times as likely to live in poverty as married women.
Borrowers who drop out of college are twice as likely to be unemployed as borrowers who receive a degree and ten times as likely to default on their student loans.
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Yet they are just as likely to want to quit as anyone else but are likely to be more addicted and lack the right support to stop, the report found.
These "difficult" doctors were 12 times as likely as the low-difficulty doctors to say they were burned out, nearly four times as likely to report high stress, and more than nine times as likely to say they had provided "suboptimal care" in the past year.
Ina 237-person clinical trial, patients who used the NovoTTF-100A were as likely to die as those who got chemotherapy, but they were less likely to have side effects such as nausea, anemia, fatigue and serious infections.
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Studies showed that the sub-standard silicone used posed no serious long-term threats to health, but the PIP products were up to twice as likely to burst as other implants.
But modern art is just as likely to alienate ordinary people as to excite them.
Looking at a JPM chart, the one thing that is certain is anybody who bought and sold the stock over any period in the last two years was just as likely to have made money as to have lost it.
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We also continue to examine the way that statistical evidence is used in government policy making - or not, and conclude that quite often the evidence is as likely to give as much weight to the views of the bloke in the pub as to the standards expected by social science.
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One level is the short term--what should we be doing immediately so that some of the really bad things we have seen won't be as easy to pull off or as likely to occur, such as the Madoff case.
There are even a couple of studies showing that bullying does indeed increase the risk of PTSD -- and that women are twice as likely to develop symptoms as are men subjected to the same traumas.
Ethnic Turks born in Germany are twice as likely to pass the Abitur as those born in Turkey itself, though still only half as likely as native Germans to do so.
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Children living in single female-headed families were more than four times as likely to be living in poverty, and six times as likely to be living in deep poverty, than children living in married couple families.
And women who had migraines with auras less than once a month (75 percent of the group) were more than twice as likely as migraine-free women to have a heart attack, and almost twice as likely to have had a heart procedure, such as bypass surgery.
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' Nowadays we are at least as likely to hear her referred to as just plain Mom.
So a reporter is nearly twice as likely as the average American to live in New York and three times as likely to live in Washington.
Specifically, carriers of the BRAC2 genetic mutation were almost seven times as likely to develop throat (pharyngeal) cancer and eight times as likely to develop pancreatic cancer.
But male bosses were much more severe than women: they were three times as likely to suspend or sack a subordinate, and only half as likely to give merely an oral wigging.
Next, since higher-paid workers want to hold on to their jobs, they would not be as likely to steal as lower-wage workers might.
Speaking on BBC current affairs programme The Wales Report, she said she wanted to see urgent action taken to vaccinate children over the next month, especially as the disease is more likely to spread as they return to school.
It seems to be as likely to encourage imitation as restraint.
Left too much to their own devices, such people are, they fear, as likely to run off with the business as to get on with it.
It also went on "Children in the manual social classes are twice as likely to die in an accident as those in the non-manual classes, and the poorest two fifths are one and a half times as likely to be at risk of a mental illness as the richest two fifths".
What I find really amazing is that if you have a parent or a sibling with bipolar disorder you are about twice as likely to have regular old depression as you are to come down with bipolar disorder.
Moreover, the 3.4% missed by the census in 1990 was not randomly distributed: for example, blacks and Hispanics were six-to-seven times more likely to be missed than whites, and children were twice as likely to be missed as adults.
That is just as likely to dull the appetite for independence as to whet it.
Martin Khor Kok Peng, 49, is unusual among activists: He is as likely to give speeches at global forums as to agitate with the protesters outside.
Back in March, I wrote about the Health Tracking Study Physician Survey, which showed that internists are 8.5 times as likely to reject all Medicaid patients, as compared to those with private insurance.
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