The resulting index is a mix of trend reportage, expert findings, data-rich analysis and future-positive prediction.
To be sure, any prediction about future sales of unannounced products should be viewed with caution.
Chevy's Volt could be different--there aren't too many other plug-in hybrid electric cars to compete with at the moment--and the Vincentric data is just a prediction of future worth.
In statistics, the coefficient of determination, denoted R2 and pronounced R squared, is used in the context of statistical models whose main purpose is the prediction of future outcomes on the basis of other related information.
Of course you want a prediction on the future of gold and a wild one too.
Sir Hartley found himself named as a likely future prime minister, a prediction bestowed on many politicians that is usually the kiss of death.
But here I am making a prediction about that future.
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This mixed opinion makes it difficult to make any prediction for the future, but what is clear is that companies with a positive or optimistic view of the US economy will be more likely to want to drive innovation and change.
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As the man said, prediction, especially about the future, is very difficult.
Prediction, especially about the future, is after all quite famously difficult.
The degree of likely future need is not commerce but only a prediction.
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On Wednesday, Dan Geer, Alex Hutton and Greg Shannon plan to give a talk at the cybersecurity-focused conference SOURCE in Boston on using prediction markets to gain foresight into future events in cryptography research, cyber threats, and even data security-related regulation.
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If you had to make a prediction about what will happen in the future with the waves of people that have been marching in the streets in cities across America, if they do begin to participate more in the political process, what do you expect that we'll see?
But then as the man said, prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
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Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future?
This is a little tricky of course and not just for the reason the man gave: prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
His latest prediction is that Iran will not make nuclear weapons in the immediate future, but enrich enough uranium to show that it could.
His latest prediction is that Iran will not make nuclear weapons in the immediate future, but will enrich enough uranium to show that it could.
As the psychologist Philip Tetlock demonstrated in his magisterial analysis of 20-years of expert prediction, a dart-throwing chimpanzee was a better guide to the future.
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My prediction is that Downton Abbey will be a ratings favorite for the foreseeable future, whether you catch it on your local PBS station, Netflix or your iPad.
From kindergarten on we were taught what can be described as prediction reasoning, a way of thinking based on the assumption that the future is going to be pretty much like the past.
If we accept Mr. Taleb's premise about power-law ascendancy, we are left with a troubling question: How do you function in a world where accurate prediction is rarely possible, where history isn't a reliable guide to the future and where the most important events cannot be anticipated?
That unrealistic way of predicting future trends could keep stock prices up this month before they begin to fall next month if my prediction of slowing economic growth starting now is accurate.
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