Not only is there little (or anything) to be gained from offering a diagnosis, it can undermine the credibility of the author who is looking from a distance, and, once again, it generally is not a reliable predictor of capacity and functioning.
The validity of the current statutory cut-off ages will be tested by the same method, but using age as the predictor of capacity to provide informed consent.
My team has found that the coping strategies of Caribbean corals that recover quickly from bleaching in one year may not be a good predictor of their capacity to recovery from a bleaching event the following year.
However, their interpretation differs markedly from ours; they did not consider growth rate an important predictor of phenotypic capacity, stating instead that 'knockouts of these genes do not tend to cause severe decreases in growth rate' [9].
MRC score is a good predictor of exercise capacity.
The predictor showed robust capacity to distinguish between the two groups in the training set.
Shin et al. [ 1] found that fat-free mass is an independent predictor of functional capacity limitation.
Finally, the specific level of residual cerebellar integrity might be a predictor of the capacity to improve motor performance.
At first sight this result may appear contradictory, since VO2max is an important predictor of endurance capacity [ 44].
Muscle strength is the most important predictor of functional capacity for the performance of various activities of daily living in the elderly.
