Their guesses were not nearly as good as the face-to-face participants 35.6% right versus 82.2% but they had only one round in which to make their guess.
Long before the full frenzy of the boom, you could see its harbingers at the Mountrail County courthouse in Stanley, N.D. Geologists had pored over core samples and log signatures and had made their educated guesses, and now it was the hour of the "landmen," the men and women whose job was to dig through courthouse books for the often-tangled history of mineral title and surface rights.
I find that I can easily lose my students if I start talking about facts before they have internalized the problem and made their own guesses about how to resolve it.
Umpires make their best guesses about where to look for the crucial element of plays.
When it comes to long-term safety, experts are making their best guesses in the absence of solid data, and that's where room for disagreement creeps in.
Lacking solid guidance, doctors make their best guesses about whether a particular guideline is applicable to the patient, said Gerard F. Anderson, a professor of health policy and management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins.
Viewers know as little as they do, so they can make their own guesses as the teams examine the printing on an empty cigarette pack they find, try to communicate with the first people they see (motorcyclists on otherwise deserted roads) and observe where the motorcycle's tires were made.
They were also asked to make their own guesses as to what, exactly, made moist so offensive: Was it the way it sounded, or the meaning?
West requested the specifics of which wheel belongs to which profession remain a mystery so viewers can make their own guesses.
