The best example of expectations influencing outcomes occurs with the placebo effect: if you administer a placebo to a hundred patients with a headache, thirty to forty of them will report excellent pain relief.

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Prior would not have got close to a hundred without a fine contribution from the tail-enders, especially Steven Finn, who put in an excellent effort to see Prior through to his hundred.

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They commute not only from Perth but from Sydney, Melbourne, New Zealand, Bali. (Bali is closer to Perth than Sydney is.) They make excellent money: a truck driver can earn more than a hundred thousand dollars a year, and an experienced welder, a hundred and fifty thousand.

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