If we knew the answer to this question, we`d all be rich.
I knew someone would write this :) so it can be done !
I predicted this by analysing what I know about human nature and passed experience of people discussing this topic. This was the most common thing said during that discussion so quite likely to be an (or the) anwer.
Maybe the answer is, by analysing past events we can predict what is more likely to happen.
Some things are easy, like "Tomorrow the sun will rise".
Some things are harder, "04, 34, 18, 23, 43, 13 are this weeks winning Lotto numbers"
To make a prophecy, to foretell.
A meteorologist.
meteorologist
It is impossible to make such a prediction. Judgements about hurricanes can only be made as they occur.
Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction was created in 1969.
Dan Henderson vs. Rashad Evans Prediction
By using it to make a prediction. (The most famous was the (relativity) prediction that gravity would bend light.)
hypothesis
Try it raw.
Hypothesis.
To make an educatedguess
that you will fail
Yes, it is. You can make a prediction about the gender of an unborn child and the gender is not even a number!
If a weather mam says there is a 60% chance of rain then it is a prediction. Any guess is a prediction because you don't know exactly what is going to happen. Other words for prediction are to infer, guess, or make a hypothesis.
War will start in the East.
It is impossible to make such a prediction.
That Siddhartha will be rich