English [ edit ]
educated guess (plural educated guesses )
A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge.
His educated guess was correct to within 2%, but then, he's been doing this for 10 years and knows what range of values to expect.
2005 August 6, Guy Browning, “How to … guess”, in The Guardian [1] :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.
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guess based on experience or knowledge
Catalan: conjectura (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 有 根據 的 推測 / 有 根据 的 推测 ( yǒu gēnjù de tuīcè )
Czech: kvalifikovaný odhad m
Finnish: valistunut arvaus (fi)
French: supposition éclairée f , supposition bien informée f , hypothèse raisonnée , hypothèse raisonnable f , hypothèse bien fondée f , à vue de nez (fr) , au pifomètre (fr) , estimation éclairée f , jugement approximatif m , approximation (fr) f , spéculation bien informée f , hypothèse éclairée f , à dire d’expert
German: fundierte Vermutung f
Hebrew: ניחוש מושכל
Italian: stima ragionata f , ipotesi plausibile f , supposizione plausibile f
Portuguese: palpite fundamentado m , suposição fundamentada f , hipótese fundamentada f , hipótese plausível f
Russian: обосно́ванное предположе́ние n ( obosnóvannoje predpoložénije ) , предположе́ние (ru) n ( predpoložénije )
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: učeno pogađanje n , učena pretpostavka f
Swedish: kvalificerad gissning c