The LSAT, as the half-day exam is known, does not claim to predict much beyond a student's performance in law school.
Three years ago, I stopped at a motorway services with my pregnant partner, who bought a sexist Krispy Kreme: it claimed to predict the sex of your baby.
Rebecca devises questionnaires for women's magazines - "Is he Mr Right?", "Are you sexually compatible" - and her latest, rather less cheery, test is a longevity quiz, which claims to predict exactly when someone is going to die.
In fact, S.A.T. scores claim to predict academic performance only for the first year of college, and, even then, they explain less of the variation in grades than does high-school class rank or parents' education.
As anyone who has flipped through a women's magazine in the last decade knows, Gottman claims to predict divorce with a 95 percent accuracy rate after observing couples during hourlong institutional sessions.
This is an AI-powered 'in-app mediation technology' which claims to predict supply and demand.
Short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) has been claimed to predict conversion to glaucoma 3 to 4 years before standard automated perimetry (SAP) defects occur.
Among other prognostic markers, exaggerated expression of nuclear CCND1 has key role in tumour pathogenesis and metastases of CRC and has also been claimed to predict response to treatment.
If you think about it, dating sites basically claim to predict the future, arguing that they have a crystal ball with a higher probability of users ending up in romantic utopia.
We've all heard of bizarre correlations like the Super Bowl Indicator, which claims to predict the future performance of the stock market based on which team wins the Super Bowl.
