I am not suggesting that prediction is the filter. Predictions of a certain kind (will policy change X be good or bad for the organization? Should we use our funds in this way or that way?) are a necessary part of doing business. If you want to know what is wrong with an animal who has come into a clinic, you want a prediction (either about the results of examinations, or about responses to treatment). Somehow an organization needs to make that prediction: it can give the authority to one person, it can let several people argue about it, etc.