All 10 Uses of
virtual
in
Outliers
- In Roseto, virtually no one under fifty-five had died of a heart attack or showed any signs of heart disease.
Chpt Intr.virtually = almost
- The school didn't have its students learn programming by the laborious computer-card system, like virtually everyone else was doing in the 1960s.
Chpt 2
- And what did virtually all of those opportunities have in common?
Chpt 2
- Schwartz concedes that his idea has virtually no chance of being accepted.
Chpt 3
- I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning.
Chpt 4
- Doctor Doctor Bag Manufacturer Lawyer Lawyer Lawyer Farkas's Jewish family trees go on for pages, each virtually identical to the one before, until the conclusion becomes inescapable: Jewish doctors and lawyers did not become professionals in spite of their humble origins.
Chpt 5
- They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
Chpt 6virtually = almost completely
- It's true of virtually all industrial accidents.
Chpt 7virtually = almost
- Virtually every success story we've seen in this book so far involves someone or some group working harder than their peers.
Chpt 8 *
- Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have over poor students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids learn while they are not in school.
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(virtual as in: virtual organization) to almost be something; or to effectively be something without entirely being it in a traditional sense
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(2)
(virtual as in: computer's virtual world) something simulated by a computer