A screening test shows the chance that a baby has a certain birth defect. The accuracy of a screening test is based on how often the test correctly finds a birth defect. The nuchal translucency test correctly finds Down syndrome in 64 to 70 out of 100 fetuses who have it.
Why Words are More Powerful than Swords. Words are powerful because they carry energy, sound, and frequency, which are some of the building âblocksâ of matter. Furthermore, they carry information that can be used as knowledge to create or destroy things.
We highly recommend Keith Woods' essay, An Essay on a Wickedly Powerful Word, from the online archives of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, on the uses of this particular racial epithet in journalistic situations. Among other things, the essay is instructive in the power of language.