Engineeritis sufferers always insist on spouting off about how social scientists don’t produce any predictive results.
By observing these types of interactions, Gottman can predict with up to 94 percent certainty whether couples—straight or gay, rich or poor, childless or not—will be broken up, together and unhappy, or together and happy several years later.
Of course in reality, social scientists have many, many valid findings and produce scads of predictive results. But I just wanted to highlight one in particular since I noticed it.