(n.) Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
Example Sentences:
(1) As any capable contracting person knows, this enters the realms of guesswork and slight changes in assumptions can lead to different outcomes for contracts that may be for only three or four years, let alone 13.
(2) Without this knowledge, clinical judgment regarding overall renal function in human neonates, especially those considered high risk, is reduced to guesswork.
(3) It is quite often left entirely to the inspired guesswork and seasoned experience of the lowest ranking police officers and more often than not to a Head Constable of a police station or substation.
(4) The fact that the models are three-dimensional eliminates guesswork as to the exact position of the pulp, and the rigidity of the plastic cast enhances the recovery of morphological features of the pulp as it existed in the natural tooth.
(5) Reiterating his call for a royal commission on Britain's drugs laws, Clegg says future legislation should be based on "what works, not guesswork".
(6) But Carter's trip could also be valuable at a time when, with few official contacts, determining Pyongyang's motivations and goals is often guesswork and left to unofficial envoys.
(7) The allocation was calculated on nothing more than guesswork.
(8) Predicting what happens next in the five-year saga that has shaken the eurozone to its foundations is sheer guesswork.
(9) The first exhumations were amateur affairs, involving guesswork, rumours and crude holes scooped out by borrowed yellow diggers.
(10) Without committing to the development of next generation climate modelling and climate monitoring, billions of dollars of public investment on long term infrastructure will be based on guesswork rather than on strategic and informed science-driven policy.” The letter says that if the CSIRO does proceed with the cuts, then the country urgently needs to find a new home for the capabilities that will be lost.
(11) Photograph: Global Partners Governance 2014 “Worse than this, that guesswork is then used to create the indicators of success.
(12) Finally, the examiner assessing patients with possible obstructive laryngitis, supraglottic, or subglottic, should first and foremost decide whether an airway is needed and should defer all diagnostic guesswork and laboratory data processing until the airway is secured.
(13) Until the OECD officially predicted a double-dip British recession today, the spurt of hype and guesswork preceding George Osborne's autumn statement was just about doing its work.
(14) But as the treasury secretary made alarmingly clear in his testimony this morning, the dates involved are built on guesswork.
(15) Sterling guesswork as financial sector calculates Brexit effect Read more First, the Bank of England would not cut interest rates after a Brexit devaluation (as it did in 1992 and also after the large devaluation of 2008) because interest rates are already at the lowest level compatible with the stability of British banks.
(16) The knowledge needed for the design of appropriate environmental countermeasures is, however, grossly deficient and this needs to be remedied before any real change to the current "countermeasure implementation by guesswork" approach takes place.
(17) O’Reilly said it was “guesswork” whether it was this or his “history of non-violent civil disobedience” that prompted the ban.
(18) In a row that followed publication of the IFS report, the Treasury argued the research was based on flawed assumptions and guesswork.
(19) Optimal antihypertensive drug therapy of patients with both disorders is therefore based on limited experimental data, practical experience and educated guesswork, and needs to be tailored to each (often multimorbid) individual.
(20) The Brexiteers must have fought the urge to howl: “What the hell do they know?” But it’s not just the guesswork that passes for economic forecasting which makes an Osborne text read like a work of magical realism.
Judgment
Definition:
(v. i.) The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.
(v. i.) The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
(v. i.) The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
(v. i.) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.
(v. i.) That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.
(v. i.) That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.
(v. i.) A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.
(v. i.) The final award; the last sentence.
Example Sentences:
(1) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(2) "Attempts to quantify existential risk inevitably involve a large helping of subjective judgment.
(3) The department will consider the judgment to see whether it is obliged to rerun the consultation process.
(4) Visual judgments of tremor amplitude made by neurologists during clinical examinations equaled the sensitivity of computerized tremor amplitude measurements.
(5) An experimental investigation of acupuncture's analgesic potency, separated from suggestion effects, is described, in which judgments of shock-elicited pain of the forearm were recorded along two separate scales: intensity and aversiveness.
(6) Persons responsible for animals may be unaware of the potential hazard or lack good judgment in the use of these chemicals.
(7) The concept of increasing bone mass and decreasing expanded soft-tissue mass has application within the judgment of the surgeon coupled with the patient's desires.
(8) These results were compared with perceptual judgments of "passability" under static and moving viewing conditions.
(9) Their confidence in the practitioner's clinical judgment was greater in their care of nonurgent and urgent patients.
(10) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
(11) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
(12) These errors involved supervision, limited experience, and errors in judgment.
(13) Nineteen percent of the medication administration visits could be eliminated by this method according to the independent judgments of two physicians.
(14) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(15) "This age group feeds Radio 4's core audience and it would in my judgment be negligent not to [look at this]," Liddiment added.
(16) But like officials from most other countries represented here – with the notable exception of Britain – Chernishova acknowledges a "general consensus" in her country, in both the media and among the legal profession, on the value of the court's judgments.
(17) Two experiments were designed to examine the effects of multiple timing tasks on prospective time judgment performance.
(18) Although statistics cannot replace clinical judgment, this index can be a valuable objective tool in the evaluation of the patient with a severely traumatized extremity.
(19) Theresa May’s efforts as home secretary to launch the inquiry in 2014 revealed a rush to judgment and a faith that the great and the good – our own or somebody else’s – could get hold of this and control it.
(20) The durect judgment of the function of the floor of the pelvis is only possible by the electromyogram.