One surprising result of the new study was what factors were predictors of high-risk impact.
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What are the best high school predictors of how a student will perform in college?
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It also turns out that ordinary speech patterns may be excellent predictors of human behavior in real life.
So new data can be ingested and rapidly turned into information and predictors.
So what can we do, if we rightly cast off the predictors picks?
Not surprisingly inflation predictors Richard and Marilyn both expected gold to go up.
Furthermore, because they are not valid predictors, they can have an adverse impact on hiring minorities and other protected groups.
Years of research on job interviews has shown that they are poor predictors of who will be a good employee.
They are certain to raise the question of whether our telomeres are similar predictors of how long we will live.
Courtenay mentioned one of the best predictors of whether a man will become depressed is if his spouse is depressed.
Whether such currents could act as earthquake predictors depends on whether there are changes in the strain on a fault before it slips.
Meanwhile, the data are complex, and the picture of the future depends on climate models which are not perfectly reliable predictors of the future.
Their long-term prospects were dim: economists who study the fortunes of immigrants say that education and knowledge of English are the predictors of success.
The problems with this program are predictors of the costs that are likely to come when the full law takes effect on January 1, 2014.
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Likes for "beerpong, " "Chris Tucker" and "cheerleading" were strong predictors of an extrovert while "role playing games, " "Anime" and "Voltaire" pointed to introverted personality types.
"We need to have predictors - when it will be a difficult birth, when a woman might go into early labour, for example, " Prof Wray says.
Zip code, race, and home language continue to be the greatest predictors of the quality of education a child will receive, and this is a travesty.
It also helps to eliminate known predictors of harmful strain, such as a lack of autonomy on the job, an unsupportive boss or co-workers, Dr. Nelson says.
We look to the predictors to tell us what to do, instead of relying on a rational plan based on our long and short-term objectives and goals.
In the late 1990s, Yale professor Robert Shiller examined the usefulness of price-earnings ratios (price divided by earnings per share) as predictors of future stock market performance.
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But one of the strongest predictors of whether a person votes is whether he believes that doing so is a civic duty and that belief is eroding fast.
Since it is known from other studies that these scores are good predictors of adult income, the researchers concluded that childhood vaccination would have significant economic benefits.
Now government statisticians have cross referenced GCSE and AS-level results with degree results, looking specifically if top school exam results are accurate predictors of a degree at 2:1 or above.
The field observation is that, within Africa, one of the two best predictors of the intensity of the epidemic in any given place is the prevalence of circumcision.
Not long ago we studied the patterns of financial success, and the predictors of that success, of students who had graduated from the Darden School about 25 years earlier.
According to a study by the College Board in the early 1980s, a trait known as "follow-through" was one of the best predictors of success in college and beyond.
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The one economist awarded the Nobel Prize for advancing the Keynesian agenda (Lawrence Klein) ended up revealing the limited value of complex Keynesian models as predictors of the economic future.
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Indeed, they proved better predictors than many opinion polls.
Whereas interviews are notoriously unreliable predictors of on the job success, a valid and reliable test can objectively help hiring managers identify top talent or at least weed out the obvious misses.
In any case, the incremental changes are modest after 1600--its pretty clear that key predictors drop out before AD 1600, hence the redness of the residuals, and the notably larger uncertainties farther back...
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