Sentences with phrase «make useful predictions»

See also this article in Nature on why we can't make useful predictions.

At that time (and particularly the early to mid 70's) climate science was ambiguous about predicting the future, although the 1975 NAS report summarised the state of the science pretty well: that we didn't know enough to make useful predictions and needed to study more.

The problem may be that we still won't be able to make useful predictions — when, where, how much...

... Models of our complex and chaotic climate system simply don't make useful predictions after a few days» time.

But some ocean patterns in the climate system can persist much longer, and understanding them can help make useful predictions for regional and global averages that don't depend so much on specific weather patterns.

But tests that can make useful predictions are not yet on the horizon.

It's a well - established theory that makes useful predictions that are widely used in fluid dynamics.

Although it is limited to analyzing fix - rate mortgages, it can be very handy for analyzing your current state, and making useful predictions in case you want to sell your home later.

Acceptance of theory has an epistemic component («fits» the «data») a pragmatic component (makes useful predictions) and a social component (the dreaded consensus)

Is Trenberth saying that we are making too many Type II errors when we don't judge these models incapable of making useful predictions about future climate?

Understanding the dynamics of such phenomena is essential for our ability to make useful prediction of climate change.

There's still a lot of work to be done in making useful predictions, however, which is why I think it's perfectly reasonable to say both «anthropogenic climate change is a thing» and «we still shouldn't take any drastic actions to combat it until more is known about the consequences».

Not exact matches

There are also limitations to using binary options in Singapore; some of these limitations arise from the technical part of the activity and the requirement for general information regarding the trends in global finance market prices to make better and useful predictions.

As we've mentioned it previously, CandleStick charts are essentially a form of grid or graph that display short - term and long - term market changes of an asset or asset, and aid in the development of making responsible, practical market predictions to maximize ROI — one of many useful broker tools available!

Although useful for making short - term predictions, these models provide little insight into how the higher education system evolves in response to external changes.

The objective of these models would not be to provide a precise forecast of the future (an impossible task), but rather to capture enough of the behavior of the educational system to make useful qualitative predictions.

Modeling is a useful tool for making predictions about how various biological systems will function over time, Wolz said.

Ten - day observations would be more useful for making predictions, says Peter Mouginis - Mark, chief scientist at the Maui Pacific Disaster Center, who also reviews Zebker's work.

Such data can then be used to make educational analysis and predictions that help to determine which learning materials are appropriate, useful or irrelevant for the learners.

Today, even biology has a useful theoretical component where one can make predictions based on more than gut instinct.

People in the strong warming camp think you can make useful long term climate predictions from seriously flawed models.

Nevertheless, a correlation is useful to make predictions.

a) There isn't enough data to do this, in which case I would suggest that the huge range of sensitivities mean that sensitivity is not a useful measurement to make short term predictions.

Which means that the model is not useful as a mechanism for making projections / predictions.

However, to understand the large scale patterns in climate and their changes and drivers, climate models are not only useful, but increasingly necessary to make skillful predictions for the future.

We employ climatologists to make useful climate predictions on our behalf.

«There are simply too many unknowns at present to say that this paper makes a prediction that is useful for future flooding risks,» Severinghaus said.

Furthermore, if ONE Global Climate Model was verified — if it produced useful predictions (that's in advance and all...: — RRB --RRB- I'd be impressed and more likely to consider it a useful tools in unravelling our climate, assessing risk benefits, and in making policy decisions.

The GCM's have not done too well against this kind of test, so yes, they are indeed wrong, But more to the point (with apologies to George Box), they also appear not useful at making accurate predictions.

Again, it can be useful to stop and contemplate whether a simple conceptual framework can provide greater understanding of climate model predictions and the observations we make on the climate system.

Thinking about such hypothetical situations does not affect present understanding, that must be based on existing data, but thinking what's possible is certainly useful for people who make predictions to avoid statements that lead to problems later.

Of course if there is some prediction that can be made that can be used to test the output, great, but I would think simply trying to describe how some system likely evolved based on what is known, parameterizing (with care / justification) where grid - scale requires it, etc, can provide something useful.

He claims that he is being scapegoated and argues that the personality profiles he gathered turned out to not be particularly useful for making the predictions needed for micro-targeting: