With so many unpredictable variables, several polls vary widely.
Unpredictable variables come into play: the façade, the décor, the buzz of the crowd, the smile of a familiar usher, your memories of past concerts, your entire inner world as it stands at a few minutes after eight.
Voluntary government assistance for war crimes tribunals is a speculative venture at best, and depends on so many unpredictable variables as years roll by that the original objective is sometimes forgotten.
Unpredictable variables come into play: the façade, the décor, the buzz of the… In his memoir, Tennessee Williams, one of the greatest caricaturists this country has ever produced, recalls two meetings with his fellow-playwright Thornton Wilder.
Peter Asaro, a professor at the New School in New York, noted that without a human in control, machines fail to take in the unpredictable variables and context of war: "what's the context, what's the situation, is the use of force appropriate in this context and this target, and you can automate it but can you automate it well, and who's responsible when it doesn't operate correctly".
The test is designed as a test, however, and rocket science involves a lot of unpredictable variables that you can only address once you're testing in real-world launch situations.
And that, he said, adds yet another unpredictable variable to the mix.
Others are put off by crowded airports, especially when weather is an unpredictable variable.
Some legal scholars said the federal government, by deciding not to enforce its own laws (possession and the sale of marijuana remain federal crimes), has introduced an unpredictable variable into the drug regulation system.
As President Obama and Mitt Romney prepare for their debate on Tuesday night, they face an unpredictable variable that was not a factor in their previous encounter: the common voter.
But they can influence how much America will have to pay to borrow the cash — and that is the giant, unpredictable variable in whether Americans can bring a record debt load under control.
