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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a second guess" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of reconsidering or doubting a previous decision or opinion.
Example: "After reviewing the project outcomes, I had a second guess about the initial strategy we chose."
Alternatives: "a second thought" or "a reconsideration".
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At first glance, a second guess might be in order.
A second guess is pollution, but this too is unconvincing, as the disease is found in both clean and dirty areas.
After 20 questions, it will name the object, although if it guesses wrong it will ask five more questions and take a second guess before admitting defeat.
The other half were asked to make a second guess three weeks later.In this section Signs of a long life Bug hunting Stars in their eyes The crowd within Reprints Related items Collective intelligence: When the many know bestMay 27th 2004Dr Vul and Dr Pashler found that in both circumstances the average of the two guesses was better than either guess on its own.
Enrolled participants will be randomised in a 1 1 ratio to the ASA or placebo treatment arm using dynamic minimisation 29 with a second guess probability of 0.2.
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To deal with the "Paris" problem, Google Knowledge Search revives an idea first developed in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, known as semantic networks, that was a first guess at how the human mind might encode information in the brain.
A first guess of a condensing temperature has already been taken as a rough guide.
Correspondingly, a first guess distribution based on the observed failures is strongly biased towards lower ages.
This fault model solution is incorporated as a first guess into the tsunami forecast.
In combination with network centralities, the structural representation of the underlying mathematical model provides a first guess of informative output configurations.
Therefore, the G band intensity cannot be used as an absolute thickness measurement but rather as a first guess if the relative extinction cannot be measured.
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