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...superfluous data and seizing on essential truth, we learn, but too much time or information can confuse and blind it. And the unconscious mind can be trained. The psychologist John Gottman can watch a 15-minute videotape of a husband and wife about whom he knows nothing and predict with 90% accuracy whether they will still be married in 15 years. Gladwell, with his infernal gift for coining buzzwords, calls the rapid analysis performed by the unconscious mind "thin slicing...
...matter that's taken very seriously, and their appearance causes concern." But the official stressed that the tapes could be interpreted several different ways. For his part, Scheuer concedes that he has no idea where or when an attack might occur. "I've been wrong too often trying to predict dates," he says. --By Timothy J. Burger
...hardest things for heart doctors to do is predict, before the appearance of any symptoms, which of their patients are likely to have a heart attack. The Framingham Risk Score--which measures such variables as age, sex, smoking history, cholesterol level, blood pressure and diabetes--has helped doctors in the past, but it's not perfect. By combining the Framingham scores with advanced heart-imaging technology, scientists have found, physicians can significantly improve their ability to identify patients at risk. Known as the coronary-artery calcium score, the imaging data come from specialized CT scans of heart vessels that pick...
...delicate handicrafts are not her only specialty.An Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator, Thompson is currently working on a thesis about the recent Mt. St. Helens eruption. Her thesis concerns “the method with which the seismologists and other scientists predict the eruption and…the way that information flows from them through the press and to the people...
...Unfortunately I have given up trying to predict what the Chinese government will do,” Genser said. “They make up their own judgments about his good behavior. It’s an internal process that’s not subjected to external scrutiny...