In 1950, Professor E.E. Cureton at the University of Tennessee published a paper called "Reliability, Validity and Baloney". In it, he explained how to predict the next presidential election.
Get 1000 or more pennies and put them in a jar. (If they won't fit, split them into several jars. For safety, use sturdy plastic jars.) Decide on whether George Washington is to be "heads" or "tails". Shake up all the jars and dump on a bed or something that will catch the coins. Pick up all the coins that came up on George's side and replace them in jars. Collect the other coins and put them aside. They are out of the experiment. Repeat the whole operation up to the last election, saving the good predictor coins all the while and putting the losers aside. The coins that remain are your good predictors. Use them to predict the next election.
This method will surely work for PREDICTING. Whether the prediction will turn out to be correct is anybody's guess. It is equally good for predicting other sorts of events and answering questions, such as "Will it rain tomorow?"
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Bill
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