Analogy

In future studies, analogy applies the dynamics of events in the past to help predict the future. Technique using systematic parallelisms among past situations and others that might happen in the future. Its goal is to find similar configurations and see if they can apply to the future. It uses consistent quantitative indicators (if possible) to create parallelisms between previous situations and possible future situations. If situation B usually follows situation A in the past, and we see a situation very similar to A emerging from the present, then by analogy we would forecast that situation B would occur. It determines the conditions that allow the reproduction of the two event instances.