In the second part of the study, participants were again asked to estimate the probability of each event happening to them, but this time they were not in the fMRI scanner.
While lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, 19 volunteers were presented with a series of negative life events, such as being robbed or developing cancer, and asked to estimate the probability that this event would happen to them in the future.
Does NASA have an estimate of the probability that the Earth will be hit by a potentially hazardous object (such as an asteroid) in the next 100 years?
Downgrading GM's stock from "hold" to "sell", Bank of America said it was raising its estimate of the probability that the car giant itself would go bankrupt from 10% to 30%.
Dr Farley believes that if fed data on the number of members of a network who have been apprehended, an ordered-set model can give the authorities an estimate of the probability that the network has been disrupted.