educated guess

English

Noun

educated guess (plural educated guesses)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• guesstimate
• hypothesis
• intelligent guess

Translations

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 (fr)
• German: fundierte Vermutung f
• Hebrew: ניחוש מושכל‎

• Italian: ipotesi plausibile f, supposizione plausibile f, ipotesi ragionata 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