I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.
In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.
Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.
I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised.
To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no predictive power, and you are at a loss to understand the principles behind most of the fundamental interconnections of nature.
A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.
Question: Why does anyone bother to listen to economists anymore? The profession has become an embarrassment, and the most respected economists have shown themselves to have as much predictive power as a deck of tarot cards.
As our understanding of fraud evolves, we might one day be able to develop predictive algorithms that could identify would-be con artists based on patterns of behavior.
How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.
Researchers have always tried to use psychology for predictive ends: Can what we already know about a person tell us how she will behave in a given situation? The results of these endeavors have been mixed.