So what can we do, if we rightly cast off the predictors picks?
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.
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.
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.
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.
On Jan. 8, 2012, I wrote in this space that the stock market has the answer to that most important question because not many people realize that Wall Street, yes, that oft-maligned part of the world, is one of the best predictors of the outcome of a U.S. Presidential election.
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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.
Courtenay mentioned one of the best predictors of whether a man will become depressed is if his spouse is depressed.
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.
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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Lenders may yet be cautious about providing commercial loans, but privately held companies have improved two financial metrics that are among the best predictors of default rates, according to recent data from Sageworks Inc.
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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"Family history remains one of the most important predictors of an event for an individual, " says Donna Arnett, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and president-elect of the American Heart Association.
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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Meanwhile, the data are complex, and the picture of the future depends on climate models which are not perfectly reliable predictors of the future.
What are the best high school predictors of how a student will perform in college?
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And there are few more valuable predictors for the Christmas shopping season than plans by major chains for staffing up with temporary salespeople, drivers, customer service reps and cashiers to help get them through the busy season.
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...
One surprising result of the new study was what factors were predictors of high-risk impact.
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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.
They are certain to raise the question of whether our telomeres are similar predictors of how long we will live.
Whether such currents could act as earthquake predictors depends on whether there are changes in the strain on a fault before it slips.
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology recently conducted a longitudinal study of follow predictors on Twitter and found that those who were positive and provided informational content gained more followers than those who were negative and shared content about themselves.
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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.
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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