What are the three biggest trends or predictions you see for 2013?
And the cone - the places it might go or the predictions of where it might go, that's still pretty large?
They have no ability to explain the reasons behind the macro trends or make predictions that go beyond the next data release.
When trying to divine future employment in the small-business sector from surveys of business owners, policy makers and economic analysts need to take entrepreneurial optimism into account or their predictions will be off the mark.
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Many processes, both natural and artificial, do not fall into patterns that really allow for useful predictions or projections.
Almost half of CMOs have used social data to make predictions or forecasts, and nearly nine in 10 say this data has influenced their decisions.
He tried hard to be neutral and avoided any judgment on the science underlying climate change predictions or on possible policies to counteract global warming.
Codevilla predicts that a clash between the ruling class and the ruled in the US is just a matter of time, although he makes scant predictions or recommendations for how that clash will play itself out.
Investors who are flexible can adapt and take advantage of changing markets, but investors who put too much faith in market predictions or who get stuck in one area of the market will eventually be left behind as new market trends take hold.
One question that entered my mind was how thousands of up-or-down independent predictions could consistently come out to less than 50 percent accuracy?
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If ideas are cheap, there is no point in making predictions, or worrying about failures, or obsessing, like Newton and Leibniz, or Bell and Gray, over who was first.
But there are predictions that one or two developers are researching ways to turn car technology on its head.
He says seers such as Mr. Thongbai who base their predictions on visions or other supernatural phenomenon should be ignored.
Or you can make your own predictions, using The Economist's interactive chart.
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Robertson said she sees the Foo Fighters bringing some heat for the industry darling in the album of the year category, and Werde noted that Grammy predictions are hit-or-miss.
You may agree or disagree with some of these predictions and I invite you to come up with your own list that I hope you will share with me (Put your list in the comments below and I will respond with my thoughts).
For weeks other startup CEOs and investors in the tech world have been telling me to take a look at Hashable, calling it the next Zynga, Facebook or Twitter. (Such predictions seem to be a favorite pasttime in the New York tech world these days).
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It can also be a preview, your predictions ahead of a match or your thoughts after it.
The power in this expanse of data is its ability to make person-level predictions about likely consumer (or voting) behavior.
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We wish to caution you that such statements are just predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially.
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He predicts the North's demise without acknowledging that such predictions have repeatedly failed, or even that its death throes might be painful indeed.
They charge that NASA is relying too heavily upon complex climate models that have proven to be scientifically inadequate for climate predictions as little as one or two decades in advance.
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But this is not an accomplished scientist or a respected scientific organization making the ridiculous predictions.
One or two have been unexpected successes, and early predictions of failure have proved inaccurate.
Time to panic, then, or at least dust off those doom-laden predictions of a double-dip recession?
Keep in mind these are not predictions, but rather expectations that may or may not be met.
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The future LTV results are simply predictions based on many assumptions that may or may not hold.
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Actually, these are two different ways of measuring the same thing, so whether a model uses one or the other should make no difference to its predictions.
Of course, we do need to consider all of the possibilities but over the decades actual out turns have been at the low estimate or below: which is why peak population in these predictions has been falling over those decades.
The following predictions about the next 10 years could be accurate or far off the mark.
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