Sentence examples for predictive judgment from inspiring English sources

It is a matter of predictive judgment, not science.

Mr. Tetlock found that the experts' predictive judgment wasn't very good.

"By its very nature, identifying individuals who 'may be a threat to civil aviation or national security' is a predictive judgment intended to prevent future acts of terrorism in an uncertain context," Justice Department officials Benjamin C Mizer and Anthony J Coppolino told the court on 28 May.

There's just one line in the order that strikes me as incorrect: "Given this state of affairs, we are not satisfied with a mere predictive judgment based primarily on the assurances of government officials, even though we have no doubt they are proceeding in good faith".

"We are not satisfied with a mere predictive judgment based primarily on the assurances of government officials," the court wrote of arguments that voters would not be disenfranchised by the law.

If anything, we should punish him for lacking sound predictive judgment, for Trump's behavior over the course of his campaign has been nothing if not a continuation of his past sexism.

Due to these failures alone, the government's predictive judgments cannot be considered reliable," Sageman told the court on Friday.

Because it would involve asking a court "to supervise inherently predictive judgments" — that is, to make the White House defend its guesses about who is worth killing.

"[T]here is no indication that the government has assessed the scientific validity and reliability of its predictive judgments or the information that leads to those judgments, nor has it used a scientifically valid model for predicting, and accounting for, the rate of error that might arise from those predictive judgments.

"The lower courts failed properly to defer to senior Navy officers' specific, predictive judgments," Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., joined by four other justices, wrote for the court in the first decision of the term.

The appeals court said the claim by gun rights groups that the ban on assault weapons will primarily disarm law-abiding citizens was "speculative at best, and certainly not strong enough to overcome the substantial deference we owe to predictive judgments of the legislature on matters of public safety".