guesswork

Every estimate is at least partially a guess, and experience or higher IQ won't eliminate all the guesswork.

How much of these debts will go bad is guesswork.

They developed it all on the fly, using a lot of guesswork. How much fat do you extract?

How much official Chinese money has found its way into peripheral euro-zone countries is a matter of guesswork.

Because, you know. Sometimes they just don't fess up like they should. But seriously, let's take the guesswork out of sex already.

It adds an extra dimension to your sense of aesthetics, removing the guesswork that you necessarily engage in during the design phase.

Like the creatures drawn on the edge of a medieval map, the shapes of the denizens of this land are a mixture of observation and guesswork.

Technology, he said, can take some of the unease and guesswork out of finding what lies between the stops.

A great deal of uncertainty surrounds these estimates because so much depends on guesswork.

The price would affect the cost of every decision we make; it would take away the guesswork.

The transaction costs would be lower if you could add the offset with the click of a button and eliminate the guesswork.

And ask yourself how much of that bold prediction is based on reliable numbers and how much is outright guesswork.

Or so I guess. But their absence of accountability means that guesswork is all we've got.

For a body that has lain for more than a few days, guesswork is the best forensics can do in telling us how long ago a person was murdered.

Gift registries save shopping time. They take the guesswork out of giving. But a lot of the affection, too.

One purpose of such a script is to automate the guesswork of targeting a new system.

If the changes involved were understood, picking the right size and composition of nanoparticle would be less a matter of guesswork.

Moreover, it's a lot better than the greater amount of guesswork that went into earlier calculations.

One way to eliminate the guesswork would be to spot asteroids on the way in and then go pick them up for analysis.

But he sees it as a powerful tool in taking the guesswork out of talent development.

The fact was, however, that the assumption about correlation was just that: guesswork.

Granted, counting millionaires in the U. S. is an inexact science: counting them in China is one step away from guesswork.

Pricing was a matter of guesswork until the last moment.

As the logical context diminishes, the human mediator must increasingly rely on guesswork when making merge decisions.

Experience can help reduce guesswork to a certain point, but our inability to predict the future accurately must be factored in.

It was a sketchy version patched together with a lot of guesswork .

The connection string builder classes are designed to eliminate guesswork and protect against syntax errors and security vulnerabilities.

To the uninitiated, this approach may sound little better than guesswork.

There should be no editing or guesswork necessary to compile and run your program on university lab computers.

Eyewitnesses and guesswork. Government relief workers and agents from NGOs assess stricken neighborhoods for casualties.

Other cases are diagnosed through an often inefficient and sometimes wasteful combination of chest x-rays, bacterial cultures and guesswork.

Never develop another roll of film only to find out your son blinked in every shot . Eliminate the guesswork with a digital camera .

The aim is to make estimates more rigorous, shades of judgment starker , politics and guesswork less prominent.

Office Visio 2007 takes all the guesswork out of choosing colors and formatting for diagrams.

The truth is that at present, much of what pass for scientific "facts" about the sea and what lives in it are still based on guesswork.

Sharing data with distributors, meanwhile, eliminates guesswork about inventory.

This gives you the best apples-to-apples comparison, but it involves a lot of estimation, extrapolation, and a dose of outright guesswork.

By restricting the available configuration options, the bindings reduce guesswork and eliminate trial-and-error testing.

Models help take some of the guesswork out of the process.

On the minus side, there's no documentation apart from the PHP code itself, so getting this library to work entailed some guesswork.

Much of what people are talking about dinosaurs is, perforce , guesswork.

So think of it as being 30% vocabulary understanding and 70% guesswork.

Gauging overall public response is a matter of either guesswork or metrics analytics, neither of which are our particular specialty.

It was a story together with a lot of guesswork.

Working out the figures in other countries involves much more guesswork.

Informed guesswork suggests that it could rise to over one hundred million tons next year.

Often, configure scripts will allow users to override some or all of the guesswork and provide known-good answers.

Not having traveled this route before, I had to do the usual guesswork about junctions , forks in the road, turnoffs.

The study of colour and personality is a fascinating mixture of scientific fact and emotional guesswork.

As a result, debate about chief executives' compensation among analysts and the public was hampered by guesswork.

Our experiments with guesswork show that most people over pour common foods and liquids.

Growth rates are rarely static so calculating possible time frames is guesswork at best.

The goal is to reduce the guesswork and provide as solid an estimate as possible.

How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork .

They rely on a magazine editor's guesswork about the factors to consider and the relative weights to assign to those factors.

Even if highly advanced decompilers come to pass, their output will at best be guesswork.

The stakes are far too high and the pace much too quick to rely on guesswork, intuition, or gut feelings.

Very little. Morphology and a lot of guesswork.

This makes any judgments about their progress mere guesswork.

There is much guesswork involved in futurology, and studies like HSBC's are invariably rosier the further out they look.

This will not only be able to help them find a place where there is a problem, but also to avoid people produce subjective guesswork.

The ages of rocks between these two were little more than guesswork.

So it turns in sharply enough but there is little in the way of feel and the amount of front end grip is left to guesswork.

Intentions, whether good or bad, are not a matter of guesswork , they can be perceived.

She had simply become very very good at guesswork.

Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.

Previous estimates of China's PPP were largely guesswork.

To find the remaining $280 billion, the IIF resorts to educated guesswork.

Moreover, making decisions based on projected second-order, third-order and more remote consequences is guesswork at best.

3M's stethoscope eliminates that guesswork.

Despite this big-picture guesswork, I think it will be important to be choosy.

At this stage, this list is just guesswork.

Sometimes, though, it's a lot of educated guesswork.

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Knowledge Factor takes the guesswork out of testing

sixteen pages of inspired guesswork

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it is facts , not guesswork , that we should rely on