Prescience in a sentence as a noun

So please, tell us NSA, what prescience do you have to know what it should and shouldn't be?

401Ks, Roths, IRA, pensions are for those who do have "competence" and "prescience".

It doesn't take prescience to build solid architectures.

The level of prescience is astounding and this is almost 17 years ago.

I think you overestimate the prescience of these investors.

Living cheap and making investments is sound advice, but anyone who made their fortune in the late 90s was more lucky timing than prescience.

I'm good at technology, and I make money at it, but I don't see this as a particularly great merit or the result of my hard work and prescience.

In the paragraph immediately after that, she notes that retirement planning requires not merely competence, but prescience: You need to know when you'll retire, and when you'll die.

The part you identify as having been left out is the entirety of what would be interesting in the analysis: any kind of specificity beyond flattering the greatness and prescience of our very-smart techie hobbies.

I think cultural and educational background is a factor, but not in the fashion of "persons who had an education of X type in culture Y have superior prescience", but rather "persons who had education experiences of X, Y, Z, and developed in cultures A, B, C, D, Q, R have superior prescience", as having a broader gamut of experiences to draw from allows you to eliminate many biases from which you'd otherwise suffer.

Prescience definitions

noun

the power to foresee the future

See also: prevision