Sentences with phrase «underlying predictive ability»

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They found that measures of self - efficacy — a personality trait that underlies how much you believe in your own abilities to accomplish a goal (as well as deal with the stresses that accompany working toward that goal)-- were predictive of how risky a climber was willing to get.

It would be nice to also have the underlying mechanism explained, but it's not necessary — what matters is that it could be shown to be false, and that it have predictive ability.