Religious involvement is a much, much more powerful predictor of how someone will vote than income, education, gender or any other social and demographic category save race.
A person's peak exercise capacity as measured on a treadmill test is a more powerful predictor of how long someone will live than are risk factors like heart disease, high blood pressure or smoking, a study says.
In addition, Mr. Hustead said workers' pay had been shown to be a more powerful predictor of life expectancy than whether a worker was blue collar or white collar, but the bill did not recognize that higher-paid workers live longer and therefore require longer pension payouts.
Whether someone owns a gun is a more powerful predictor of a person's political party than her gender, whether she identifies as gay or lesbian, whether she is Hispanic, whether she lives in the South or a number of other demographic characteristics.
Left-ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) may be a more powerful predictor of cardiac events than SV alone.
Conclusion: Despite the theoretical appeal of time to motor localization (eg, in persons with language comprehension problems), time to command following appears to be a more powerful predictor of outcome after severe brain injury.
But an even more powerful predictor of staying in the United States, the authors write, is whether "in recent years the US economy has had strong GDP [gross domestic product] growth or the birth country of the foreign student has had weak GDP growth.
That pattern of decline is consistent with observations that synapse loss is a more powerful predictor of Alzheimer's symptoms than amyloid plaques, and "brings into light what's happening in the early stage of the disease," says Jonathan Kipnis, a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville.
A more powerful predictor of John's purchasing behavior is what his friends are doing and buying.
A previous study from University of Virginia and Rutgers University researchers found that teachers' expectations of students was a more powerful predictor of future success than parents' expectations and students' expectations of themselves.
The present study was devoted to develop a new and more powerful predictor for predicting eukaryotic protein subcellular localization by addressing the above three problems.
