Word: ratio
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...suit if the payoff were a guaranteed increase in reproductive fitness. According to the most recent beauty research, this should indeed be the case: the standards of beauty that men bring to the beach, scientists claim, are innate and universal and involve, among other things, a waist-to-hip ratio of about 0.7, which was apparently taken as a reliable signal of female fertility in the Pleistocene epoch. So if you have any ambition to propagate your genes, this theory goes, you'd better stay in that fitting room until you find something that works...
This new observers vs. parade policy has many happy side consequences. First of all, no one gets heat stroke. Second, the children are so busy soaking people, they don't eat much candy. Third, our ratio of citizens marching to citizens watching has now improved enough that we can rightfully call the festivities a parade, not a town procession...
...crucial thing was the ratio," says Park, who became friends with Rodd and his roommates during her time in Wolbach. "The ratio moved towards 50-50 faster in the Quad than it did by the river. That's why there were a lot of problems in general, because of the four-to-one ratio...
...largest numbers of his career. But the response in Sydney could actually be more significant. The crowds may be modest, but over three days, 1,555 out of 25,000 who attended have answered the invitation, coming forward to profess their relationship with the risen Christ. The actual ratio is 6.1%, a better record than Billy's over three previous Australian swings. And over 80% of those responding are under age 25. They are the future of arena revivals, the harvest of souls still waiting to be taken--by one Graham or another...
...decision to remove the 1.2 to 1 gender ratio controls was terribly misguided. The administration's pursuit of engineered diversity ignored the undesired byproducts which often accompany the most well-intended policies. The fact that 70 percent of the rising sophomores in Pforzheimer are male--in contrast to a collegiate male to female ratio of 55 to 45--testifies to the inherent problems of randomization and the need for gender controls...