unpredictive

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Adj.1.unpredictive - having no predictive value
unprophetic - not prophetic; not foreseeing correctly
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We assert that concerns about the unpredictive nature of complex behavioral theories, which hampers acceptance of models such as expressive analysis, are misplaced.
Also, over half of the sample considered their parents as authoritative (n = 602, 61%); 15% felt they were permissive, about 4% considered them uninvolved, and about 20% stated that they were authoritarian and / or unpredictive. The mean (SE) score for attachment to the mother was 10.4 (0.1).
(20) This is higher than 95% for nonfunctional, conventional ELISA and antibody tests which are incapable of distinguishing helpful from harmful antibodies resulting in reproducible but nonfunctional and unpredictive results; that is, many false positives and some false negatives.
(These percentages do not always add up to 100%, because some participants used other configural strategies, e.g., starting with unpredictive compounds or other simple lexicographic strategies like TTB but with a different cue order, e.g., starting with Cue A.) In accordance with our hypothesis, when participants had a configural causal mental model of the environment, a high percentage of them used the TTB-configural heuristic and decided according to the highly valid compound cue if it discriminated.
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