Sentences with phrase «very good predictors»

«Short - term changes in test scores are not very good predictors of success,» you write.

In addition, a series of studies by David Grissmer and colleagues found that early math and reading achievement tests are not even very good predictors of later test results relative to other types of skills and more general knowledge.

Besides, personal ratings are not very good predictors of elections.

In fact, the very best predictor of a state's peacefulness is not its level of wealth, its level of democracy, or its ethno - religious identity; the best predictor of a state's peacefulness is how well its women are treated.

There is some evidence that he used Fed funds futures to set policy; during the Greenspan years, it was a very good predictor of policy.

As it turns out, having a large economy is a very good predictor you'll be consuming more of the environment than you replace.

More importantly, this system has the very nice property that the global mean of instantaneous forcing calculations (the difference in the radiation fluxes at the tropopause when you change greenhouse gases or aerosols or whatever) are a very good predictor for the eventual global mean response.

My personal take is that the difference is probably quite small, and even if it is not, from a practical viewpoint, the effective sensitivity value is going to be a very good predictor of warming, at least for 100 to 150 years or so.

This tells me that the ENSO index is a very good predictor of damage and the PDI simply is not (FYI, nor is the ACE index used by Gray et al.).

In a study of 168 couples across 14 years of marriage, University of Texas professor Ted Huston found that this element was the very best predictor of relationship quality.

Cummings and Davies cite numerous studies showing how prolonged marital conflict, as opposed to short - term conflict in times of short - term stress, is a very good predictor of child behavior problems.

It is clear that the very best predictor of personal resilience is ability to take one's armour off and be comforted by a loved one.

Not exact matches

Research shows that decline in relationship satisfaction after the birth is very common, occurring in an estimated two - thirds or more of couples; and that the best predictor of each parent's adjustment to parenthood is the other parent's adjustment.

Executive skills are very much in the news today as far as brain development is concerned, because we've learned that these are actually the best predictor of a child's success when he or she grows up to be an adult.

Added Dr. Keith L. Black, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, «Age will be a very strong predictor of how well the senator does; it's probably a stronger predictor than the grade of the tumor.

Specific tension is a very carefully - constructed ratio between strength and size, which is adjusted for neural drive by using involuntary force, and it is the best predictor of strength gains after training.

It is not very surprising that Piagetian tests were better predictors (since these correspond to school tasks more closely than those of IQ tests).

A long track record of good performance can be a predictor of future success, but the consensus of the many academic papers studying the matter is that the track record needs to be very long indeed.

Secondly, TD performs very well in qualitative predictors of future growth.

In that paper, Kerry and Mike show the combination of global SSTs and regional aerosol forcing are a good predictor of Atlantic tropical SSTs and thereby Atlantic TC counts, and that there is very little Atlantic tropical SST variation left for a multi-decadal cycle to explain.

Based on the idea that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, behavioral interviewing asks very specific questions about candidates»...

Note that love, honesty, and humor were very close to being statistically significant independent positive predictors of well - being.

Mr. HORN: If economics was the best predictor of which couples fail and which couples don't fail, then Hollywood would be full of very sustainable marriages, and that's simply not so.