Because of his experience with homeless patients, Amarasingham added in his model social variables, in addition to clinical ones, such as the number of home addresses in one year, and whether or not the patient had insurance.

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The company's algorithm draws on information from more than 100 databases and social networks, looking at an array of variables such as users' locations and the number of personal connections.

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It means, instead, that success is governed by four, not three, variables: talent, industriousness, social intelligence, and opportunity.

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They investigated two independent variables: (1) the presence or absence of an unsuccessful social confrontation with the transgressor regarding the fraud and (2) the type of fraudulent act that occurred.

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