Indeed. I have not found a more consistently predictive model for human behavior.
I am not claiming it is scientific. I am simply saying it works -in the real world- as a predictive model for behavior. As you said, something can be both useful and unscientific.
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Newtonian physics is predictive when it can point to where a certain planet will be visible at a certain time. This is what predictive means. Human behavior is too complex to ever be 'predictive'. People can have consistent habits of acting without being predictable.
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This is the reason I said predictive of behavior, and not predictive of action, or specific actions. We are in ageement - let's not argue semantics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior
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You may say you can predict the direction of their habits of acting, but there is no action which cannot be accounted for by someone's cognitive function stack
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So, say I provide a pair of dice and some tarot cards whose identity is linked to each possible outcome of a roll of the dice. If the outcomes are correct more than what probability would say is pure chance, do the dice and the tarot cards constitute a predictive model?
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