re: #150 HebrewToYou

LVQ, there is no “truth” when predicting exactly what’s going to happen in the future. Do you not understand that simple fact? Unless you have a time machine you’re still guessing.

That’s how we make future decisions all the time. I don’t know what my salary will be next year, but I know what my raises were for the past 4, so I can guess that I’ll get a raise, and it will be about this much.

My company knows about how much they can expect to make in about the same way.

Insurance companies guess how many claims will pay out based on what’s happened in the past.

Hotels and restaurants and retail shops do their staffing based on how much money in sales they’ve done on that day in the past year.

Sometimes we’re all wrong. Most of the time, we’re not.