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A POSTERIORI: A conclusion reached through logical reasoning based on facts and observations about the real world. This notion is closely related to the scientific verification of hypotheses and the identification of principles. A similar sounding, but opposite term is a prior, which is a unverified presumption made before an analysis is undertaken. For example, in the study of economics of crime you might assume, a priori, that people are basically "good", and conclude, a posteriori, that people are more likely to commit crimes when the threat of capture and conviction is lower.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time watching the shopping channel wanting to buy either a rechargeable battery for your computer or shoe laces for your snow boots. Be on the lookout for letters from the Internal Revenue Service.
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The Dow Jones family of stock market price indexes began with a simple average of 11 stock prices in 1884.
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. " -- Thomas H. Huxley, Scientist
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CBI
Confederation of British Industry
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