Since these predictions have hypothetical character and are much more than their predictability, Jouvenel suggests to speak of conjectures, which can be understood as a "proposition" [10].
But the public conversation often times requires more than philosophical predictability.
More than showing the predictability of customer movements as in [22], we focus in one of the possible causes of it.
"Wall Street likes predictability more than it likes the chance of dry holes," said John P. Herrlin Jr., global coordinator of research into exploration and production companies at Merrill Lynch.
However, in terms of predicting whether a hurricane will hit NOLA or Mobile AL, that is inherently uncertain more than few days out (predictability depending on the large scale circulation system and the strength of the storm).
Jones is not the first writer to find that a classic swashbuckler translates effectively into outer space, and, in this case, the fun of finding familiar elements strangely transformed more than compensates for any predictability in terms of how the plot will go.
(b) The predictor 'visit' adds more predictability than 'geo' in predicting the #bostongstrong occurrences in farther cities (top 50% in terms of geo-distance).
For this study, eyes with postoperative refraction within ± 0.5 D of expected refraction are considered accurate or good predictability, while those with final refraction more than ± 0.5 D from predicted refraction is considered inaccurate, reflecting poor predictability.
However because of its long time of treatment more than a year and low predictability, some clinicians prefer a surgical intervention.
Google has rejected the notion of providing specific earnings guidance to Wall Street, a practice that assumes more predictability than most companies, large or small, can actually deliver.
