Anticipation
Everyday we are bombarded with incidents that are occurring around us. Individuals therefore try to anticipate what are the incident which might follow. The anticipation of an incident is the possibility of presupposing what might occur next. The act of anticipation largely indicates to prediction or expectation of a certain outcome. The entire domain of research and academics is based on the need and wish of humankind to predict different areas. Therefore, prediction help us to plan accordingly. Humans tend to anticipate phenomena, incidents etc based on he information that is already available to them. They employ both divergent and convergent thinking, reasoning, heuristics, logic gates, algorithms to anticipate future consequences of present phenomena. The anticipation of an incidence allows people to prepare for what is about to happen. For example is extremely helpful in averting dangers like natural or artificial calamities with proper preparation. Study of trends and statistics regarding the phenomena we are trying to predict ensures the generalisiblity and probability of the prediction.