@ETpro I have to believe you are being somewhat disingenuous. You sound like a fairly scientific kind of person. As such, you would know that scientists are always making hypotheses that they study so as to see whether these hypotheses are of any use in predicting the behavior of something.
There are any number of psychologists here who have a lot of information about human behavior patterns, and I’m willing to bet they could interview someone and make some fairly good predictions about that person’s general behavior patterns. I would think that, knowing the person was in therapy, they might make better predictions.
I make predictions all the time about people’s behavior. That’s how I decide if I can trust them or not—or rather, based on those predictions, I decide whether to trust or not.
I’m not talking about predicting an event such as the collision of an asteroid on such and such a date. I’m talking about things like if a person is drunk and driving, they are more likely to have an accident. If you know a person is an alcoholic, or if they have a mental illness, or if they are wealthy, surely you make some predictions about them? Surely, if they came to you and asked you for a prediction of some kind, you could do it?
It’s all probabilities. But some people get their predictions right more often