Those responding then argue that even if some hypotheses make exactly the same predictions, one of them may still be a better explanation of the phenomena predicted.
(For that matter, the same predictions were made around the nickel deposit on bottles, which most shoppers don't even notice).
Then there are the predictions of job loss at soda distributorships, but the same predictions were made about the tobacco industry, and those were wrong.
But when making the same predictions in private — anonymously, they were told — the same people rated their chances on the test as highly as people who scored low on the impostor scale.
"It would be unfair if you had two candidates with similar GCSEs and the same predictions, but one had AS-levels and the other didn't," says Lynsey Hopkins, head of admissions at the University of Sheffield.
Mr. Wolzien, now a senior media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, said that the public is generally left to wonder why the networks all seem to have the same predictions.
John R. Joyce, I.B.M.'s chief financial officer, noted in a conference call with investors that while many analysts were projecting improvement in the economy for the second half of the year, the same predictions had been made in 2001 and 2002.
Instead of supposing that any theory has rivals that make exactly the same predictions and accord equally well with all canons of scientific method, Kuhn suggested that certain kinds of large controversies in the history of science pit against each other approaches with different virtues and defects and that there is no privileged way to balance virtues and defects.
Also the two criteria yield the same predictions for the transition point.
For even though these theories make the same predictions, the former is explanatorily superior to the latter.
The theoretical results show that the quantum-mechanical treatment leads to exactly the same predictions as the dipolar field treatment.
