Question 3
Verbal and Logical Ability
2018
Medium
MCQ
+1.00 marks · -0.25 negative
If history doesn’t follow any stable rules, and if we cannot predict its future course, why study it? It often seems that the chief aim of science is to predict the future - meteorologists are expected to forecast whether tomorrow will bring rain or sunshine; economists should…
Read the following sentences: 1. A historian successfully predicted a political crisis based on similar events of the last century. 2. Using the latest technology, doctors could decipher the microbe causing the disease. 3. Students who prepared for an examination by perusing past 10 years' question papers did not do well in the examination. 4. A tribe in Andaman learns to predict epidemic outbreaks by listening to the stories of how their ancestors predicted the past outbreaks. Which of the statement(s) above, if true would contradict the view of the author?
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