But there is also economic sense to it, as opening these top positions up to the other half of the population will mean an even more talented slate of candidates to choose from, making sure the best and brightest are better and brighter.
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The population does mean you get a more precise estimate of BMI simply by averaging over large numbers.
Putting a lid on the prison population will mean restraining sentences.
In a meritocracy the Lords would increasingly come to represent a random sample of the population over the generations, as regression to the mean moves all to the average.
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Cholesterol UK said if that pattern was repeated among the UK population of 40 million adults, that would mean 12 million people did the same.
Changing demographics (more older women in the workforce, an aging population) mean more workers with eldercare responsibilities than ever before.
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The ageing population and advances in medicine mean more and more people are living with chronic long-term conditions, such as heart disease and dementia, for which there is no cure.
National competitiveness is a slippery and sometimes incoherent idea, but a coherent version is to take it to mean a population with the human capital to adapt when old jobs go away, and shift quickly out of dying industries and into growing ones.
We do know for a fact that factors as diverse as climate change and aging populations mean that even as the global urban population continues to grow, some cities are shrinking.
So if population does matter after all, does that mean the Malthusians were right?
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But putting GPs in leadership positions in the NHS will mean they can improve services for their entire local population.
Primary and preventative health care alternatives are often inadequate or inaccessible to a population where even an hour of missed income can mean the difference between food on the table or not.
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It has yet to mean as much for the ill-educated, elderly and rural population.
Yes, today nearly 90% of the U.S. population has a wireless device, but that does not mean we are anywhere near saturation since we will all be carrying multiple devices for different tasks.
Asking them, along with the rest of the developing world, to go back to 2000 emission levels with a 2050 population would mean putting them on a very drastic energy diet.
Real town meetings--I mean the old-fashioned kind in which a town's voting population meets annually to bicker, gossip, elect councilmen, vote on bond issues--are anachronisms today, surviving only in a few eccentric backwaters of Ye Olde New England.
This would mean that, among the top 25 most followed accounts, we have a more active population of followers, as only 30% are reported inactive.
"Of course, it does not mean that what can be 'spared' in the rich countries could directly be used to feed population in developing countries, " explains Paillard.
By that I mean that in Kenya, the largest group, the Kikuyu, make up about 15 percent of the population.
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