"High school grades are the single most powerful predictor of college performance," he said.
The most powerful predictor of children's behaviour was what other children around them were doing.
It's well known that presidential approval ratings are a powerful predictor of election outcomes.
"Gender turned out to be the most powerful predictor of undertreatment and that wasn't what you'd think," says Dr. William S. Breitbart, chief of psychiatry at Sloan-Kettering.
It turns out that Ms. Shullman was right: The relative number of questions asked is a powerful predictor of who will win.
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.
He found that a single inflammatory molecule, called interleukin-6, was the most powerful predictor of who would eventually become disabled.
"On the other hand, given that the other January effect was such a powerful predictor of the market during the past year, I am chastened.
Ethnic discrimination is a powerful predictor of enslavement, but no global discrimination measure now exists, so this factor couldn't be included in this year's report.
Looking across countries over five-year periods, the growth in the working-age population is a powerful predictor of job growth, especially in the United States.
I found that their working memory at five was a very powerful predictor of their overall achievement in school six years later, much more than their IQ scores.
