"Prediction"

When it comes to developing predictive capacity and growing confidence that a state of affairs will occur again, a number of factors come into play. These factors include: independently verifying sources, conducting a sufficient number of iterations of experimentation and observation, evaluating the normality of the evidence, reducing the number of confounding factors, and ensuring the consistency of relevant factors between experiments.

By acting in these ways, we can build up a picture of how a relationship is likely to occur again in the future, even as conditions change and evolve over time. This can require a careful and systematic approach, as well as a commitment to ongoing refinement and improvement, in order to achieve high degree of justified confidence and accuracy.