Word: inexactness
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...word that the professionals in the field now consider inexact. With the in-deep set, the word is oceanology...
Psephology, as guessing elections is called in Britain, is about as inexact an art as playing the football pools. Faced with a general election this year or next, the experts last week studied a rich crop of auguries with unusual diligence and the usual results: they disagreed...
Time for the Pros. As in Wanamaker's day, advertising is still an inexact speculation. The thing that most concerns businessmen is that it is also an increasingly expensive" one. Little more than a decade ago, $1,000,000 was a respectable year's advertising budget for anyone but a major consumer-goods manufacturer; today a single TV spectacular may cost that much...
...when she was gone the doctor thought On science, so much like beauty, so inexact, The marvelous form of Which never worked out but was a matter of fact...
Then Sahl claimed that he had once taught college math, and, as a blackboard illustration of the differences between the exact and inexact sciences, "I drew a woman on a couch, and I explained to the class that in mathematics you moved across the couch and got the girl. In philosophy you never reached her; and in psychology, you discovered she wasn't the right girl for you anyway...