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That is true although it should be said that several respectable branches of physics, such as meteorology, are not much good at prediction, either.In both cases, the reason is pretty obvious.
Economists are not good at prediction, but we can tell pretty good stories after we see and think about big events–and do some econometrics.
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We believe tiny houses are the next big thing (and we're pretty good at predictions).
Sometimes I'm not very good at predictions, but it seems clear to me that, for example, with what's happening with home foreclosures and the pressure on the housing market, my guess is that we're only about halfway through this.
Recently developed RNA structure prediction models are good at predicting some structures at high-accuracy resolution.
The GP model demonstrated a significantly better discriminative power than the EuroSCORE and the ICU nurses, and at least as good as predictions done by ICU physicians.
She is also pretty good at football predictions.
Are political scientists any good at making predictions?
September 11 , 2012Updated at 11.31am BST 11.28am BST Amanda Spielman, the Ofqual chair, says schools are not always good at making predictions.
In a debate with Stephanie Flanders, the economist and former BBC journalist, he even cited an expert professor to support his argument that expert economists were not good at making predictions.
While experts on average didn't make predictions that were much better than chance, there was a small subset of experts that were actually pretty good at making predictions, a group that Tetlock has come to call "superforecasters".
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