actuarial
Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
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Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
Thus social insurance, in sharp contrast with actuarial insurance, can cover not only risk but also uncertainty.
Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.
A rigorous approach to risk requires identifying and valuing risks explicitly, e.g., by actuarial or Monte Carlo techniques, and explicitly calculating the cost of financing any losses incurred.
An actuarial also found that the program will not go bankrupt as some detractors say it would.