Word: predictor
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...high official in the Admissions Department stated that the SAT verbal was he best predictor of performance. He also commented that fifty points showed a significant difference in intelligence unless the two educational situations had been very different for the boys tested...
...physician and no machine can forecast with certainty whether a man will have a heart attack, or when. Until such prevision becomes possible, doctors must rely heavily on the electrocardiograph, which, although not much of a predictor, is a smart detective. It can usually reveal whether a heart has been damaged, and with these clues the cardiologist can prescribe care and treatment for patients who seem to run the greatest risks of heart attacks. Yet the electrocardiograph has identified only a fraction of the nation's ailing hearts...
Harvard considers its Predicted Rank List (PRL), which it uses as a factor in admissions, the "best single predictor yet devised of how well a man will do at Harvard." The PRL, which is derived from a secret formula of college board scores and high school rank in class, is also an excellent predictor of post-graduate performance. Of the 88 members of the class of '66 with PRL's between 2.0 and 2.4, 54 are in graduate schools of arts and sciences. Only 17 of the 153 graduates who entered Harvard with PRL's between...
Suspicious Uncles. For a woman whose fertilized ovum has suffered a one-time mutation and who is not a carrier, the creatine kinase test is no predictor. Her level is that of a normal woman. But in many women who are carriers, the level can go as high as 40 units per liter. A woman who has had one dystrophic child or relative should have her creatine kinase level measured by means of a blood test, said Dr. Emery. Any woman who knows that a brother or an uncle or a great-uncle has died of the disease should likewise...
Heller sounds so cheerful at times that he gets accused of being overly optimistic. In a TV interview a couple of weeks ago, a questioner charged him with being an "onward and upward predictor," contradicting the "gloomy view" that Kennedy took during the campaign. Was he really so confident that the Administration's antirecession measures would work? Replied Heller: "Yes." That confident yes is characteristic of Heller, and of the new pragmatic economics...