Word: predictableness
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...Cook] was considered a leader, and he was a really, really good student - well-liked by his peers, always prepared, tough, but fair. We would have predicted great things for him, although it would have been difficult to predict he'd head one of the world's most iconic brands." -Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University's Fuqua Business School, The Street.com...
...ability to predict earnings probably deteriorates with the economy. Some professor at MIT has probably proved that but he is not telling. He has studied the dynamics of the correlation between EPS and GDP so that he can game the system and make hundreds of millions of dollars day trading S&P futures. His secrets will accompany him to the grave...
...greater the exposure as a fetus, in other words, the higher the levels of confidence, vigilance or risk appetite triggered by testosterone in an adult. That observation has already made digit ratio a useful indicator of ability in fields other than finance; 2D:4D has been found to predict success in sports such as soccer, basketball and skiing, for instance. (Read TIME's top 10 sports moments...
...psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and Amy Wax, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, mocked the notion that "we are all racists at heart," claiming that "no research demonstrates that, after subtracting the influence of residual old-fashioned prejudice, split-second reactions in the laboratory predict real-world decisions...
...first question for Kenzer's dead friends was about the recession. While many economists are predicting recovery at the end of 2010, the dead people were pointing her toward a far more realistic 2012. Kenzer sees a lot of companies going bankrupt this year. "I get a purple color and the letter a," she said. I figured that was Yahoo!, but she said no. "They're doing all kinds of things behind closed doors to not die." Some of those things, I predict, are opening lots and lots of credit-card accounts. When I asked if TIME magazine would have...