Predisposition used in a sentence

Predisposition in a sentence as a noun

If there is a predisposition for people to choose "5" under those circumstances, we will have learned something.

Now I suspect it goes deeper than that: I think humans may have a genetic predisposition to equality. What made me realize this was going to Africa and seeing lots of animals in the wild.

Not everyone has the predisposition or personality to be an engineer. Those people have to do something.

If it's wrong to force traditional roles/identities onto those with a "queer" predisposition then the opposite is also true.

Is it a predisposition to believe in a made-up but apparently widely perceived trend that, in the words of another poster, "the newer YC bunch are playing dirty to win"? In any case, this time it makes me upset.

This is largely due to maternal predisposition; higher-IQ women are more likely to drink during pregnancy. It turns out that the placental barrier is pretty awesome.

The logic goes: People don’t get to pick their genes, so it’s unfair to penalize them for the unfortunate bad luck of having a predisposition to Alzheimer’s. I expect to see a bunch of people who don't disclose their 23andMe results and who then have their insurance cancelled.

After all, your Twitter feed states that you're a feminist and criticizes "gender role enforcement" on Hacker News, which suggests you're coming at this story from a predisposition. That's fine, but it means your warning may be tinted by previously held views.

[1]: "Going crazy" as a loose term for something like schizophrenia which the science is showing you will have a genetic predisposition towards. If you don't have a direct blood family member who suffers from it then you probably don't have it either.

I later learned that some people have a genetic predisposition to perceive cilantro, an herb common in Mexican food, as a soapy taste [1] [2]. Maybe in the case of these laptops, nobody who was involved in production / QA had the right gene to be bothered by the smell.

Perhaps you have a predisposition to cancer or some rare disease that is expensive to cover. The reward in a single payer system is that everyone gets covered regardless of genetic or life circumstances.

I don't know if a genetic predisposition to homosexuality, haemophaelia, a positive test for **** or ****** or ginger hair will one day be used against me or my descendants by some future mob. And that's why privacy is important.

The problem becomes apparent if someone is "diagnosed" by 23andme as having a predisposition to something that they don't actually have. For example, your test says you're sensitive to warfarin and you choose not to have that drug administered in a time when your doctor says it would be the best option.

If you have any predisposition towards psychosis, in family history or personally, please avoid ***. For those firmly rooted, it might be pleasurable or productive to become a little less so. If you're already sometimes on the edge, *** can push you over.

The example you provide, men in nursing, is a poor one for your case, as men historically shied away from nursing because it was socially associated with femininity, not because of genetic predisposition. Through concerted efforts over the last fifteen years, the proportion of men in nursing has sharply increased.

You have to look beyond the connotations because it's much too easy to hide a predisposition to reject anything a certain gender says behind a litany of jargon and adequate explanations, smartly avoiding trigger words that connote the sexist intention. Plenty of good ideas are rejected because of their source of origin, not their technically sound qualities.

You noted in another reply that this indicates genetics play more of a role in addiction than environment, but this also calls into question any inferences about human addiction that are based on rat studies which do not include an analysis of the specimens' genetic predisposition toward addiction. Finally, research that supports the result of the Rat Park does exist [1].

That's not how insurance works now; if you already have insurance for your family, they don't render family members ineligible for therapy based on evidence of predisposition to illness. And as of 2014, regardless of the nature of the evidence, insurance companies will no longer be allowed to exclude customers based on predisposition to illness or preexisting conditions.

Oh, except those rules for a scientifically valid and repeatable study don't count when he cites it himself: "The evidence for an inborn, male predisposition for systematizing comes from a single experiment on newborn infants, tested with a single person and object. The person was the report's first author, who surely knew the experimental hypotheses and who, we now learn, may have known the sex of the infants whose attention she elicited.

A company with $100K in annual revenue that doubled from last year is more positive than one with $20M that shrank by 20% I would expect that more than a predisposition to react to directional changes over absolute amounts, such a reaction would be due to individuals within the organization being concerned with their own personal fate. Being one out of two or three in a company with annual revenue of $100k that's doubling every year puts you personally in a very good position.

It may just be the case that for various social reasons, predisposition to homosexuality has not been responsible for enough of a decrease in reproduction to counterbalance the probability of randomly mixing genes in just the right way to recreate it "from scratch." This could be particularly likely if some of the involved genes are useful by themselves in other situations, and homosexuality is hitchhiking on the backs of those beneficial mutations.

The report says that although deficiencies in microbial exposure could be important in the rise in allergies and chronic inflammatory diseasesdriven also by genetic predisposition and modern lifestyle factors such as different diets, stress, inactivity, and pollutionit is not yet clear how the trend can be reversed. Rook said, There are lots of ideas being explored, but relaxing hygiene regimes wont reunite us with our old friendsjust expose us to new enemies like E coli 0104.

Here's what I suspect is really going on: The FDA is being pressured by the insurance industry to restrict consumers' access to their own DNA because of the information asymmetry between the government's preclusion of insurers ability to consider genetic data when determining eligibility and consumers' recently available ability to cheaply know if they have a predisposition for a variety of potentially expensive or life-limiting illnesses. That the FDA is likely pandering to this industry under the dishonest guise of consumer health protection makes me more distrustful of it as an independent entity.