inaccurate prediction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinaccurateandprediction
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inaccurate
adjective
uk/ɪnˈæk.jə.rət/us/ɪnˈæk.jɚ.ət/
not completely correct or exact, or not able to do something correctly ...
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prediction
noun[C or U]
uk/prɪˈdɪk.ʃən/us/prɪˈdɪk.ʃən/
a statement about what you think will happen in ...
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Ignoring covariances due to non-additive genetic factors results in biased estimation of additive genetic variance andinaccuratepredictionof additive genetic effects.
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Their prior inaccurate predictions in nearly identical circumstances would make most families, regardless of culture, doubt those same predictions now.
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The costs for making inaccurate predictions and exaggerated arguments are negligible to non-existent.
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When questioned again, the family recalled the physicians' past inaccurate predictions but were unperturbed by them.
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Moreover, the change would enable pupils to seek to gain admission on the basis of work done and results achieved, rather than of inaccurate predictions of performance.
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Some scholars suggest implementing jury education to attenuate potentially inaccurate predictions, drawing upon research that investigates how to decrease inaccurate affective forecasts.
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The book has been criticized since its publishing for its alarmist tone, and in recent decades for its inaccurate predictions.
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Some accurate predictions of the future come from the hard science fiction subgenre, but numerous inaccurate predictions have emerged as well.
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Thus, psychologists suggest that a lack of concrete details prompts forecasters to rely on more general or idealized representations of events, which subsequently leads to simplistic and inaccurate predictions.
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In certain situations, this illusion leads people to make confident but false explanations of their own behavior (called causal theories) or inaccurate predictions of their future mental states.
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Zemeckis said he was somewhat concerned about portraying the future because of the risk of making wildly inaccurate predictions.
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