It's anyone's guess, for instance, why insomniacs would need to watch a testimonial from a mother whose son was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at the Mayo Clinic.
The authors guess, for instance, that if investors saw the east as no more risky than Portugal, then eventually GDP would rise by more than 18% of its 1992 level.
Who would have guessed, for instance, that Wendell Nielsen, a high-ranking sect official with family here, had 21 wives in Texas, too?
Often they are forced to make heroic assumptions, guessing, for instance, that managers spend 20% of their time on organisational innovation (an investment) and the rest running their firms.
I'm guessing, for instance, that you might have bought a cup of coffee recently from Pret or Greggs, rather than voyaged to the Amazon basin to harvest your own beans.
Who would have guessed, for instance, that Mario Batali nursed a fondness for chips and salsa, that Alton Brown was a doughnut-hound, that Jean-Georges Vongerichten was mad for chocolate?
Who would have guessed 18 months ago, for instance, that ordinary citizens would appear on a show called "Fear Factor" and volunteer to be covered with live rats?
At least without some other addictive additive to pull people back (quasi-anonymity among groups of friends that at least allows people to try and guess who's who, for instance, or guess where gossipy content might be coming from or who it might be referring to — thinking of apps like Secret and Whisper).
One creditor committee at Enron, for instance, guesses that fees may hit $700m for the two years or more that the firm thinks its bankruptcy will take.
If a definition of measurement is to pay respect to this basic fact, it cannot be so narrowly construed as to apply to only one area of scientific activity (e.g., physics); on the other hand, the definition cannot be so permissive as to trivialize the concept to the point that measurement is not recognizably superior to, for instance, guesses or statements of opinion.
For instance, guessing which nodes are specifically interconnected, based on measurements such as their degree or clustering coefficient, is almost invariably an impossible task.
