Yes, political prognostication and economic forecasting share the same occupational hazard of over-extrapolating from a few months of data. |
Compared with their other bizarre predictions and otherwise miserable record of prognostication, this is a minor failing. |
Around this time in every midterm election cycle, the vultures of political prognostication begin hovering over incumbents in trouble. |
So with these caveats in mind, I am willing to make a couple of straightforwardly vague prognostications. |
Have the floors of our nation's television studios ever been more littered by dishonored prognostications than in the past twenty-four months? |
As academic life grew more removed from the convention, the prognostications became self-fulfilling prophecies. |