What is "guesswork"

Usage examples of "guesswork".

Our aim is to find ways of reducing the Bernoulli Interval to zero: that is, to make guesses of ever-increasing accuracy on the basis of an ever-decreasing statistical sample, or, to put it another way, to move from probabilistic to absolute prediction, or, rephrasing it yet again, to replace guesswork with clairvoyance.

And so our teachers, who were just the usual babbling drudges from the House of Scholars, served us up a foggy thirdhand mix of rumor, legend, and guesswork which was just about as close to useless as anything could be.

For most of the nineteenth century geologists could draw on nothing more than the most hopeful guesswork.

A lot of guesswork and supernatural justifications for events came into play.

I judged that the bargello, having failed in his project, was now reduced to guesswork, and I was strengthened in that view of the case when the gate-keeper of the palace told me, without my asking any question, as I came in, that an arrest had been attempted during the night, and had not succeeded.

Well into the 1950s, the best maps available to oceanographers were overwhelmingly based on a little detail from scattered surveys going back to 1929 grafted onto, essentially an ocean of guesswork.

But this, like all other speculations concerning the Overlords, was pure guesswork.

She did her best guesswork, even finding some dirty-looking sweatpants and a couple of T-shirts tucked in the back corner of his closet.

Never having the opportunity to clock a balsa raft under sail over a measured nautical mile, estimating the fleet's speed through water was strictly guesswork.

Quite a lot of guesswork and estimation has to go into this, but the margins of error are not so great as to nullify the whole enterprise.

He decided not to mind the fact that with the extraordinary jumble of rules of thumb, wild approximations and arcane guesswork he was using he would be lucky to hit the right galaxy, he just went ahead and got a result.

It was an area not favoured by navigators: a few days' scirocco hiding the sun with dust haze or cloud could prevent sights and bring a lot of guesswork into navigation.

Professors Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart of Warwick University were very generous with their time in providing expert advice to shore up my layman's guesswork.

Very sporting of you to try to cover up for your girl friend, but we aren't going to let ourselves be blown to stripped atoms twentyeight minutes too soon while you monkey with the buttons, the very thing Benson-Carter warned against, and pray for a guesswork miracle.

Those were days long before the written record of any human impressions, and we are left almost entirely to inference and guesswork in our answers to these questions.