predispose

• Those who argue it should be opt-in base their argument on consumer inertia and status quo bias - if the heretofore-regulated incumbent is the default service provider and the default contract is opt-out, innate consumer inertia would predispose them to stay on the default contract, even if competing suppliers could now enter the market and offer services that would likely be appealing to those customers. —  Knowledge Problem
• Rather, it's the interaction between multiple SNPs and factors like diet, exercise, and weight that predispose you to disease - indeed, studies show that lifestyle accounts for about 70 percent of our susceptibility to health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, and some types of cancer. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
• Yet finding the genes that predispose people to lung cancer has been difficult. —  RNews - TOP STORIES
• Positionality when it was invoked by feminists it was to alerts us to how our structural locations predispose us towards certain readings, towards taken for granted authority to speak for and theorize and represent others and so on, etc. etc. Right? —  Kafila
• New findings indicate that a substantial portion of otherwise healthy people are missing large chunks of their genomes, gaps that can predispose them to certain diseases. —  Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews

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