Is there evidence of the scheme becoming more of a predictive tool and aid to decision making rather than working primarily in an administrative function?

Literary Digest was wrong, of course, and straw polls never recovered, at least as a predictive tool.

Which makes it not much of a predictive tool, but again, he seems not to mind this very much.

I love the idea of maths as a predictive tool.

Quantum mechanics, he insists, must be taken not just as a predictive tool but as an explanation for how the world really works.

Over the last decades, within the emerging field of Complexity economics new predictive tools have been developed to explain economic growth.

It is not currently expected that this knowledge will be refined into a precise predictive tool.

This is the first predictive tool to appear that is based on the chemistry of the erupted lavas.

Point spreads' connection to wagering is precisely what gives them their value as predictive tools.

But it is not a predictive tool for calculating deaths from low-level radiation.