And while there isn't a set recipe for raising successful children, psychology research has pointed to a handful of factors that predict success.
He added, "I predict success".
But customer satisfaction, Ms. Levitan said, does not seem to predict success.
It says it is similarly not possible to predict success rates from reviews.
In other professions, employers have to hunt through CVs, looking for qualities that might predict success.
When the data are reliable, an algorithm may be able to predict success, but it can't tell you what's good.
Ms. Margolis added, "We think it would be difficult to predict success as a lawyer prior to law school".
It would more accurately predict success at the high school level and bring in a more diverse body of students.
He said colleges and universities needed to do much more research into how well the tests predict success at their individual institutions.
In a nod to his legendary glibness, they added: "We predict success for this remarkable youth for, given sufficient time, he will convince anybody of anything".
Various things predict success at a platonic relationship, one of the most important being whether you were mates before, as you'll already know how to be friends.
