Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

above chance

Portuguese translation:

acima do nivel estatisticamente esperado ao acaso

Added to glossary by lexisproject
Apr 30, 2008 11:28
16 yrs ago
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English term

above chance

English to Portuguese Social Sciences Psychology
The times were chosen sepa­rately for each subject in each block, in order to ensure performance that was above chance in the conjunction condition, but included sufficient errors in the feature condition for analysis to be possible.

In both experiments, target identification was well above chance, even when major location errors were made.
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May 5, 2008 15:27: lexisproject Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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acima do nivel estatisticamente esperado ao acaso

diria algo assim..
Peer comment(s):

agree Luciana Roppa
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obrigado
agree Roberto Cavalcanti : concordo se remover "ao acaso"
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obrigado
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Obrigado a todos"
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(bem) encima do acaso/do azar

:o)
Peer comment(s):

disagree Rui Domingues : "encima" não existe em português, qd muito seria "em cima", o que não se aplica ao contexto,mas sim "acima"
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além de qualquer risco

Expressão análoga a "take the chance" --> correr o risco.
Similar ao ditado popular "acima de qualquer suspeita".
Example sentence:

drug abuse results were above chance to prevent conscientiousness

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inesperada/casual como anteriormente mencionado,

Sug.

Diria assim.

...foi bem inesperada/casual como anteriormente mencionado, mesmo.....

- above: anteriormente mencionado

- chance: inesperado, casual.
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