Standard Predictive Ratio

Prediction indicates the desire to know something before it has happened, which requires an ability to predetermine an action which is taken or happens without one’s control. Cultures in most time periods and places have developed various forms of prediction. As the concept of ‘science’ [i] has changed over time, man’s predictive methods have changed. Astrology, palmistry, tongue examination or pulse reading have become x-rays, CAT scans and radioactive isotopes in the blood.

The manifest world is holographic, so it can be read from multiple directions or any piece of the manifestation itself. Palm reading, face reading, or psychological fill in the bubble tests are ways to predict the nature of a being that has actions coming forth.

Our modern consumer culture requires knowledge of people’s buying habits and predicting buyer trends. Companies have developed detailed ways to predict what is happening in their life and send the correct coupons.[ii] They can predict a woman is pregnant by what she buys in the first months of her pregnancy with 87% success, and predict her delivery date… by what she buys in the store with her member discount card.

In studying this margin of error they began to study why they would not be more accurate. They found that during certain life changing events people changed their tendencies and habits. These events are moving [when the Feng Shui/Vastu changes], getting married [when two souls begin to share karma]. The biggest life changer is when a couple have children, [where a whole new soul’s karma enters and changes the directions of two people’s lives]. The habits and tendencies (samskaras) have a potentiality to change based on such external factors.

Individuals often argue about the nature of free will versus fate relative to astrology, but fail to notice that marketing by corporations predicts 80% of their customer’s consumer actions. They do not have a 100% accuracy. Medical tests do not have 100% accuracy. Some may be over 80% (even close to 99%) and some under (as low as 50%), but the average is approximately 80%.  There are simple tests with a large room for error (like an at home pregnancy test or an instant HIV test), and then there are more advanced tests when something is being indicated. Astrological techniques can be very similar, with simple techniques having a large room for error and more advanced techniques that take more time to calculate but which give better accuracy, when something indicated needs further analysis.

This margin for a new possibility out of the predictive model is called the Standard Predictive Ratio by Freedom Cole. It is best to advise individuals to always leave room for that 80/20 ratio in whatever predictions are given, in astrology, psychology, medicine, etc. Some predictions will have a larger room for error but none will consistently give more than the Standard Predictive Ratio. A skilled Vedic Astrologer is considered to be able to reach 80% accuracy.

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[i] The word science is defined as a system of knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation, as it has been used for about the last five millennium or so. This is not to be confused with the ‘scientific method’ of the late 1600’s and the model of science associated with it. Science is the framework of using reason to understand the process of nature. Science as changes regularly, just as Newtonian to Quantum physics has changed the perception of matter. The trends of science change as quickly as the nature of our language.

[ii] The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg