educated guess

noun

educated guess

noun

1

A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge.

Everyone guesses: estimating is how people with a trade guess; educated guesses are what professional people do; hopeless stabs in the dark are what statisticians do.2005 August 6, Guy Browning, “How to … guess”, in The Guardian:

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