The phrase "failed prediction" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe a prediction that did not come true or was incorrect. Example: The meteorologist's failed prediction of a blizzard caused chaos as people were unprepared for the sudden snowstorm.
Such statements are explicative, not predictive, and so neither falsifiable by failed prediction nor verifiable by successful prediction nor justified by inductive evidence.
In fact, by and large the goldbug response to each failed prediction has been to claim that evil government officials are hiding the truth.
This was used to explain the failed prediction of Scripps results by a model generated from the NCGC data.
For two-factor theorists (Davies et al. 2001; Stone and Young 1997), the delusion is formed in order to explain a puzzling experience or a failed prediction, but the presence of the experience or the failed prediction is not sufficient for the formation of the delusion.
Holist underdetermination (Section 2 below) arises whenever our inability to test hypotheses in isolation leaves us underdetermined in our response to a failed prediction or some other piece of disconfirming evidence.
Some say the church earned a cool $56 mil from the failed prediction.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq "left failed predictions lying about the landscape like burnt-out tanks".
It's easy to see a potential parallel between these failed predictions and today's warnings about global warming: both are based in part on the idea that human ingenuity will not triumph over nature.
Paul Milo, author of "Your Flying Car Awaits," which chronicles various failed predictions about space tourism, among other things, said the idea of an average person going to the moon is still far-fetched.
On December 15 , 2013 after roughly 13 failed predictions, the end finally came for the 92-year-old Camping.
George D. Chryssides has suggested that with the exception of statements about 1914, 1925 and 1975, the changing views and dates of the Jehovah's Witnesses are largely attributable to changed understandings of biblical chronology than to failed predictions.
