It is far from a reliable predictor of the eventual nominee.
(Though Clinton's autumn polls were not a reliable predictor of the 2008 primary results).
According to the data, the relationships among collaborators emerged as a reliable predictor of Broadway success.
A low score is a reliable predictor of more heart problems to come.
The report found that contributions "have been a generally reliable predictor of whose side a superdelegate will take".
The quantity of these younger fish, called jacks, is a reliable predictor of the abundance of the next year's run.
By the end, in Closer and Charlie Wilson's War, gender is simply a less reliable predictor of behaviour.
Regularity of church attendance is a much more reliable predictor of voting intentions than income.
Since 1990, class has become an increasingly reliable predictor of family patterns, Professor Carbone said.
The most reliable predictor of educational achievement is, according to the psychologist Sophie von Stumm, of Goldsmiths, University of London, "a hungry mind".
As the events of the past year have shown, no factor should go uninvestigated in the quest to find a reliable predictor of earthquake activity.
