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...Parental education is a strong predictor of student performance,” he says...
...fact, isolation is a much better predictor of desperate acts than anything anyone would ever say out loud. If Yates didn't have much objectivity about herself, she wouldn't have had that voice inside saying, "Hey, shouldn't you talk to someone about this?" Instead, she'd become more and more desperate...
That was just the first of many changes intended to make parents feel welcome. Constantino, 42, knew that a top predictor of a child's success is parental involvement in his or her education. But Stonewall faced a problem familiar to many schools in the suburbs, where parents in two-career families commute long distances to demanding jobs--and where a quiet kind of educational neglect often breeds mediocrity...
Idea density turns out to be an astonishingly powerful predictor of Alzheimer's disease--at least among the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Snowdon found by reading nuns' early writings, he could predict, with 85% to 90% accuracy, which ones would show the brain damage typical of Alzheimer's disease about 60 years later. "When we first looked at the findings," says Snowdon, "we thought, 'Oh my God, it's in the bag by the time you're in your...
...Trying to predict what consumers will do has always been the soft spot of economics as a science - it's an exercise in futility. Consumer sentiment numbers are thought to be a good predictor, but there are times that there's a big difference between what consumers think and what they...