predictivity

The beauty of this is that inflationary physics is rich of predictivity just as LambdaCDM itself.

Universe to WMAP: ΛCDM Rules, OK? | Universe Today 2010

He rightly notes that predictivity isn't enough, because a "black box" predictor is rather useless in real life.

Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today 2009

You don't just want to reach that target, you want to cover all your targets, but if you point at that one, you have a degree of predictivity of ROI – it will go up.

Predicting ROI Before It Happens - Bill Harvey - MediaBizBlogger 2009

Maybe we can come to an even more precise statement, if we define, what “complexity” and “predictivity” mean.

Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology? Sean 2007

IDists are completely lacking in predictivity for what exists since they carefully avoid normal predictions that can be made for known designers, thus they wish for evolution to be likewise.

The latest from the World of Egnor - The Panda's Thumb 2007

So yes, predictivity, or explanatory power, is abundantly manifested in evolutionary theory.

ID neither explains nor predicts - The Panda's Thumb 2007

Adaptive planners "... contends that requirements churn is unavoidable ... predictivity is an illusion ... we should face the reality of constant change and use a planning approach that treats change as constant in a software project" 23

UML Distilled Bill Kerr 2006

Scientists will generally add usefulness to the list of important factors - predictivity is king.

Transitions on the DI blog - The Panda's Thumb 2006

After beating up on Sean about predictivity, I should point out that I agree with Clifford and others that coming up with real predictions that go beyond the standard model is probably too much to hope for right now.

Two cheers for string theory Sean 2005

I personally would be quite happy if we could actually prove string theory has zero predictivity no matter how accurate measurements become, or if we could prove the other extreme, that no vacuum of string theory reproduces our universe.

Two cheers for string theory Sean 2005