Forecasting Forecasting Probability essentially means predicting. Prediction of various phenomena has been of interest to mankind ever since humans have inhabited the planet. One prediction of early human beings may have been that the sun would rise the next day, along with where animals or other food might appear. These predictions would be based on observation and experience. Once human beings began to investigate natural laws, certain predictions like the rising of the sun came to be... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science, 2022. 2p.