Such general predictions are worthless because mere happenstance means they will happen, god or not. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Psychohistory uses history, sociology and statistics to make general predictions about the behaviour of large groups of people. (newscientist.com)
I think ordinary folks easily mush together models with parameters with parameter values or «settings» with exact predictions of runs under specific settings and with general predictions that pertain to runs over a range of settings (which settings, may or may not encompass the universe of plausibility or «reasonability» and can be its own source of controversy), etc.. (realclimate.org)