Such statements are explicative, not predictive, and so neither falsifiable by failed prediction nor verifiable by successful prediction nor justified by inductive evidence.
Because of this successful prediction and the social concern about oil shortage, using bell-shaped curves to predict oil production has become especially popular.
What is the Earth Institute's historical record of successful prediction?
A critical distance approach gave a successful prediction, and a good estimate of the fatigue life.
A successful prediction of instantaneous local gas holdup, gas velocity, and liquid velocity were also presented.
This has been examined by successful prediction of interface oscillations and transient, random wavy profiles.
The results showed a successful prediction of the hydraulic conductivity curve using confined compression curve.
The successful prediction of the Leonid storms has made the deployment of new spectrographic techniques possible.
The successful prediction of neurotoxin is becoming an important task in recent years.
The estimated kinetic parameters provide a successful prediction of various measurable chemical species.
And this was a view validated by theory, history, and, it turns out, by successful prediction in the current crisis.
