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# How to pronounce "base rate" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/bæsɛrɪt/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **ba·se·rate**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "base rate" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "weird things but you know that's good it gives us some natural base rate reporting whether how many and what percent of the community actually posts their photos on the dating website I think it's just talking about your"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 49:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubLgWPMmwc&t=2965s)

### Example 2
> "Even if most people with Tourette syndrome have twitches, that doesn't mean that most people with twitches have Tourette syndrome." The doctor failed to take into account the prior, the base rate. Now, she was fortunate that she had the wherewithal to kind of reconstruct Bayesian thinking with her own common sense, but a lot of people don't- and a lot of people have to explicitly be disabused over their base rate neglect."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 49:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6KTCjwmdzs&t=2992s)

### Example 3
> "comfortable with the process of doing it. That might be the biggest takeaway from doing a training course like that. And so in this paper, we have that sort of base rate look, everybody's feeling anxious. Um and then, what are the downstream consequences of feeling anxious? And what we find people we had people doing negotiations, playing these negotiation games. What we find is that people are much more likely to sort of leave prematurely or make more"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYXzR5KahEg&t=1169s)

### Example 4
> "when they charge more interest to them okay then they pass that on to us and raise mortgage rates right so when the bank of England put up the interest rate that base rate then that's why people's mortgage rates go up often by the same percent okay fine and how does a bank decide who to give a mortgage to"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 16:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9gEMds4g3M&t=986s)

### Example 5
> "they call base rate neglect or prior neglect."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 18:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IV9qjL8zI0&t=1090s)

### Example 6
> "What's a base rate?"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 25:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9x09O-csEY&t=1552s)

### Example 7
> "So there's a base rate for what you use them both in and it was way higher in these one star reviews"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 32:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iYwUh1Hdho&t=1924s)

### Example 8
> "does a person have a disease? It might be the base rate, or prevalence of the disease in the population. Anything that's relevant to how much you should believe something before you look at the new evidence."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 47:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6KTCjwmdzs&t=2846s)

### Example 9
> "So there must be a lot of sexism in mechanical engineering programs that cause women to fail." And you might say, "Well, wait a sec. What is the base rate of women who wanna be mechanical engineers in the first place?" There, if you're accusing lots of people of sexism without looking at the base rate, you might be making a lot of false accusations."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 62:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6KTCjwmdzs&t=3754s)

### Example 10
> "What is the base rate of women who wanna be mechanical engineers in the first place?" There, if you're accusing lots of people of sexism without looking at the base rate, you might be making a lot of false accusations. And that can happen with religion, that can happen with race."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 62:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6KTCjwmdzs&t=3763s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [base](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/base), [rate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/rate)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "base rate" correctly?
"base rate" is pronounced `/bæsɛrɪt/`. Syllable breakdown: **ba·se·rate**.

### What does "base rate" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "base rate" in daily English.

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