"prediction" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She professed to be able to raise thunderstorms, though her seeming success was generally laid to some uncanny knack at prediction.
- She did not trust her instincts, her untrained abilities at prediction.
- Still, the striking contrast between the concreteness of Starr's descriptions and the uncertainties about China's future highlights a troublesome contradiction that bedevils any attempt at prediction.
- And it eludes any attempts at prediction or control.
- In particular such attempts at prediction are bedevilled by what Dingwall (1989) calls firstly the 'definitional fallacy' and secondly 'the statistical fallacy'.
- Others have said that cognitivism is behaviorism with a new language, slightly bent model and new concerns which aim at description, prediction and control of behavior.
- Futurists have a decidedly mixed reputation and a patchy track record at successful prediction.
- An attempt at prediction, like that outlined above, would now have little chance of success.
- "Can we give up efforts at prediction and just passively wait for a big one?"
- Some scientific efforts at prediction will always be defeated by the nature of Nature.
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