Yes, TFF, I can quite see how such an insight might arise from knowledge of the probabilities with regard to the immanent implementation of public policies. Without a doubt, very useful, being why I rate it 9/10 as a tool for assessing current requirements and perhaps finding the best solutions to existing problems. But as you say, that's not prediction, and predictions of mathematically accuracy would be required for Asimov's psychohistory to become reality. The use of probabilities to determine the future status of society would be unreliable, as those very probabilities would, with time, recede into unpredictability. Hence the 0/10 rating.

Re your second link (Genetic Evolution as a Foundation for Supply Chain Optimization) - I'll have to digest that!