Sentence examples for scientific guess from inspiring English sources

Nate Silver and the rest are not saying that they're looking at the same broad run of evidence and making a scientific guess while the others are just guessing.

It turns out that the politically charged debate over morning-after pills and abortion, a divisive issue in this election year, is probably rooted in outdated or incorrect scientific guesses about how the pills work.

A closer look at the way that government nutritionists adopted the breakfast warning for the Dietary Guidelines shows how loose scientific guesses — possibly right, possibly wrong — can be elevated into hard-and-fast federal nutrition rules that are broadcast throughout the United States.

The population projections in these graphics compiled by Science can be considered best scientific guesses, not destiny.

When it comes to diet and cancer, we have some good correlations — that is scientific guesses as to how well certain foods can predict certain health outcomes.

I'm willing to make another non-scientific guess: Snyder doesn't care to do anything about the name because he doesn't consider American Indians a significant part of his audience.

Mr. Lhota declined to give a timetable for restoring service, saying that to do so would be "a scientific wild guess on my part".

A basic feature of a scientific hypothesis according to many definitions is that it is an "educated guess".

Obviously this blended a bit of fact and scientific best-guesses but it was also an incredible technical achievement.

A new scientific-minded guess at this riddle is both intriguing and politically appealing, not to say politically correct: it suggests that ape-men made art and culture only when ape-men finally became more like ape-women.

Rather, evolution is merely a scientific theory or "guess". 1 id.