"sensible guess" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are making logical guesses that are based on evidence or sound reasoning. For example, "The detective made a sensible guess that the suspect had left town after considering all the evidence."
These results strongly suggest that most of TIGRESS errors - especially at the top of the list - are indeed sensible guesses, where the two nodes, spuriously discovered with a parent/child relationship are actually separated by only one other node.
Such values can arise from separate experiments (not possible in our situation), or sensible guesses of values of r can be made for the purposes of sensitivity analysis (route we followed); yet another approach is to follow fully Bayesian paradigm and place a prior on r.
(In the 1990s Argentina actually adopted some sensible policies, and guess what? Inflation ceased, investments flowered, and the economy blossomed. But by the end of the decade toxic actions, such as increasing taxes, were setting the stage for a calamitous relapse).
And I guess it's sensible to have some kind of organisation around it, but this: The idea is that you do one weekly shop and cook a big meal from scratch on Night One (perhaps it's your Sunday dinner).
If indeed the phenomenon is perceptual in nature, seeing a structure as extending straight down may be analogous to seeing the shortest path in apparent motion; it may be "sensible" and minimize error between guess and reality, but nonetheless it requires a theoretical explanation.
The spokesman added: "The Migration Advisory Committee said it would not have been sensible or helpful to make guesses ahead of 1 January.
I don't think I'm telling any sensible reader anything they couldn't guess.
In his view, our knowledge of the essence of a thing is only an approximate guess based on the sensible operations of the thing in question (III, 122).
My guess is that most sane and sensible folk feel if they just wait long enough the pain and discomfort will eventually subside.
Too much cross-brand-shopping utility-meets-vintage shopping, I guess: I'm seduced by a fantasy of being sensible.
