propensities

But really, cousin, don't you think that this way of contradicting our natures and propensities, is very wrong?

The Bird and Insects' Post-Office 1824

According to the long-run theories, propensities are tendencies to produce relative frequencies with particular values, but the propensities are not the probability values themselves; according to the single-case theories, the propensities are the probability values.

Interpretations of Probability Hájek, Alan 2007

Hence virtue consists in a rationally-calculated. weighing out of the measure of the reciprocally limiting propensities, that is, in preserving a proper equilibrium.

Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

“They may not understand the exact specifics, but they do understand that these are propensities.”

Over-the-Counter Genetic Tests Raise Concerns | Impact Lab 2010

Any form of organization will have its weaknesses and propensities towards predictable forms of injustice.

Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Teacher’s Unions 2009

In any case, given my repeated attacks on anti-foreign bias, I should have been more skeptical of popular claims about immigrants 'criminal propensities.

Mea Culpa: How I Succumbed to Anti-Foreign Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Given the wide range of people's propensities to save, the wealth gap between 175-year-olds, even those with equal incomes over their lives, will be very large.

Would Ageless People be Libertarian?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dresden, the Blitz, Coventry and Caen, the gas chambers and the gulags – with, more recently Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wars in Africa – demonstrate, in particular, our leaders' propensities to hijack science for wholesale murder.

Steven Pinker is wrong – we live in the bloodiest times ever | letters 2011

It's hard to compare crime rates -- much less the underlying criminal propensities of various segments of the population -- across jurisdictions with different incarceration rates.

Why Do the Poor Commit More Crime?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Over at Overcoming Bias, the smartest man I know argues that we underestimate the quality of women's lives - and overestimate the quality of men's lives - because the genders have different propensities to complain.

The Social Psychology of Gender Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009