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 Wendell Nielsen, a high-ranking sect official with family here, had 21 wives in Texas, too?
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 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?
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.
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).
For instance, guessing which nodes are specifically interconnected, based on measurements such as their degree or clustering coefficient, is almost invariably an impossible task.
For instance, to guess the name of a person is much more informative than to guess his or her sex.
For instance, I guess the Food and Agriculture Organization had dibs on mountains, so the General Assembly got stuck with declaring 2002 the International Year of Ecotourism.
