Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fact or Guesswork? By examining General Motors' books, the fact-finding panel could obtain detailed information on 1) the company's recent costs and profits on war contracts, and 2) costs and profits in making automobiles four years...
Armed with these facts, the board could estimate probable General Motors earnings under new costs (including wages), new selling prices and new market conditions. This is the "arithmetic" of the company's ability to pay-but it is more a matter of expert guesswork than of fact-finding. Any mistake in the panel's business forecasting, if used to determine wages, could prove costly to the company, or even to the union...
...Wanted Out) gave what Mrs. Steiner considers the only ethical answer: "The problem of a disobedient child is far too delicate and complicated to be solved by 'remote control.' " (Apparently none of the columnists knows how their advice turns out, Mrs. Steiner says. Their advice is therefore guesswork...
...thobber is a person who prefers guesswork to investigation and reinforces his beliefs by asserting them frequently.* All who use pseudo-science as a short-cut cure for troubles, especially mental ills, are thobbers to some extent-e.g., those who apply to astrologers, numerologists, graphologists, self-styled psychologists with fake degrees (Ps.D., Ms.D.), spiritualists, hypnotists, some beauticians and gymnasium proprietors and advice-to-the-lovelorn editors...
Rundstedt set up his attack like a chessmaster. Good guesswork or good forecasting told him the Rhine Valley would be covered with weather the first two weeks of December. Under such a blanket he moved divisions with a minimum chance of Allied air observation. His G-2 never functioned better...