Predictors Quotes

Wall Street has a lot of football fans. The Super Bowl indicator might be fun, but I'd put more credence into astrologic market predictors. Any correlation between the stock market and the Super Bowl that can be dug up is just coincidental. There's no way the outcome of the football game has any effect on the stock market. - Jeff Hirsch

Wall Street has a bunch of football fans and it's something to do. But I really hate the thing. It might be fun and all that stuff, but I put more credence into astrologic market predictors than the Super Bowl. It's just coincidental. There's no way the outcome of the football game has any effect on the stock market. - Jeff Hirsch

There are actually very few predictors of Alzheimer's disease... This study makes us think about the spectrum of clinical signs of AD beyond changes in memory and behavior and motor skills. Changes in BMI are easy to measure in a doctor's office without an expensive scan. - David Bennett

The predictors of a good education are virtually impossible to measure. - Lloyd Thacker

Rank and GPA are no longer predictors of success. When it takes over a 3.0 to be in the top half ... the average grade is a B+, there has to be inflated grades somewhere. And the question is whether those grades are based on what was learned or what was tried. If I am given two or three chances to take a test or five or six chances to write a paper, of course I am going to do well. - Phil Patton

Lipids are strong predictors of heart disease; CRP is a strong predictor of heart disease, and these predictors are independent of one another. - Charles Hennekens

He was more concerned with his batting average than we were. We liked the plate discipline he showed (59 walks) and the power numbers. For a 20-year-old in that league, the walks and power numbers are great predictors for good things. - Mark Newman

Greenspan's confidence in the predictive value of gold (as an inflation indicator) might be high enough that, when combined with other critical predictors . . . could push Greenspan to either hawkish words or action. - Tony Crescenzi