That will translate into confidence, which is a strong predictor of negotiation performance.

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This was true even after the researchers took into account how aggressive the children were at the beginning of the study -- a strong predictor of future bad behavior.

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As happiness research over the past half century or so has shown, belonging is a strong a predictor of happiness.

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Individually, each source may only be weakly associated with something that we want to predict, but by combining attributes, we can create a strong aggregate predictor.

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