Sentences with phrase «precise predictions of future»

But the point was: It is wrong to suggest that real - world development - related policy decisions are routinely based on very precise predictions of future problems, and that we can not act on climate change because the models do not meet these alleged standards.

«Even if one had precise predictions of future meteorology, that would not mean one had precise predictions of droughts and floods,» says Mike Hulme of King's College London.

A theory is valued if it accurately accounts for known observations and yields precise predictions of future measurements.

Not exact matches

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.

«Our strategy can be expected to improve therapeutic chances substantially in the future, because this route makes it possible for us to make very precise predictions for the custom - tailored treatment of patients,» says Professor Scheffler.

Adding to this positive picture as suggested earlier, the growth in the number of data sources will increase as technology advances making the profiling of customers and competitors all the more precise to the point where predictions about future habits of such groups gain in accuracy making decision making more effective.

A couple of the terms you mention have precise meanings within physical science (limit, prediction) and this is likely to be true of many words about the future — therefore the cause is the embedding of a scientific argument within a broader political one.