Few reformers, if any, would characterize standardized tests as perfect predictors of current or future individual success.

Jurors are learning that despite prosecutors' claims to the contrary, a confession or eyewitness identification may not be a perfect predictor of guilt.

For one, a person's expectations at age 18 are less than perfect predictors of their life choices 10 years later.

Of course, confidence measures have never been a perfect predictor of consumer spending.

Wage growth has not been a perfect economic predictor, of course.

Neglects the risks inherent in investing in bonds (because forward rates are not perfect predictors of future rates).

So I don't think the even-temperedness of markets is a perfect predictor.

Of course, this contract isn't a perfect predictor of what the Fed will do six months down the road.

Overall employment was lower in March than it had been five months earlier, and that has been a perfect predictor of recessions since the 1960s.

So far, Brenna Sears' mother had been a perfect predictor.