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Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.

How good a predictor of job productivity is a cognitive test score compared to a job interview? Reference checks? College transcript? The answer, probably surprising to many, is that the test score is a better predictor of job performance than any other single measure. This is the conclusion to be drawn from a meta-analysis on the different predictors of job performance, as shown in the table below.

Research shows that doing chores makes children thrive in countless ways, and is a proven predictor of success, says Richard Rende, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School.

In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.

But social class is only one of an unlimited number of potential confounds present in MRA studies. Almost anything that's correlated with both the predictor variable and the outcome variable in such studies becomes a candidate for explaining the correlation between the two.

Based on previous studies, we can definitely say that the best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors," says Sallis, "and that an indoor, sedentary childhood is linked to mental-health problems.

People often expect religious believers to act in especially prosocial ways, which they often do, but religiosity is not always a predictor or moral kindness.

Individual income is a positive predictor and state average income is a negative predictor of Republican voting.

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

What Wilkinson and others have shown is that poverty is not only a predictor of poor health but, independent of absolute income, so is poverty amid plenty—the more income inequality there is in a society, the worse the health and mortality rates.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

According to research by Korn/Ferry International, "Learning agility is a leading predictor of leadership success today—more reliable than IQ, EQ [emotional intelligence] or even leadership competencies.

Years later, a Columbia business school dean, citing a university study, told me that the single most important predictor of a happy life in adulthood was having a paying job as a teenager. All

From this study, it becomes clear that . . . good luck accumulates, as does bad luck. People are in poor health and are poverty-stricken and get let down, and vice versa. It is totally unfair. And the only real predictor of good or bad luck is the ability to deal with setbacks. Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune.

Low body fat is an important predictor variable for total time performance in triathlon.

Your daily habit is one of the most important predictors of the quality of your life.

The single best predictor that a family would go bankrupt was if they had a child.

The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

Research has found that loss of bone density may be an even better predictor of death from atherosclerotic disease than cholesterol levels.

But decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences.

Many political scientists used to assume that people vote selfishly, choosing the candidate or policy that will benefit them the most. But decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences.

Among economic measures, inequality is generally a better predictor of violence than unemployment.

Yet the single best predictor of emancipative values is the World Bank's Knowledge Index