Sentences with phrase «more than a guess»

For entrepreneurs, it delays the valuation until the company has matured to a level that makes the assessment more than a guessing game.

You seem to think that a theory is little more than a Guess.

But these, to be sure, are nothing more than guesses, and they are guesses based on Kinsey's disputed claim that 13 percent of the male population is «exclusively or predominantly» homosexual.

Bryan sounds at least reasonable when he argues, «If the results of evolution were unimportant, one might require less proof in support of the hypothesis, but before accepting a new philosophy of life, built upon a materialistic foundation, we have reason to demand something more than guesses.»

A prediction about how tall your baby will be when he gets older can be a little more than a guess though.

The Scottish government wants to make better child care provision a priority, but the impact that this might have on participation rates again appears no more than a guess.

The US may never be able to prove or even have more than guess work and conjecture about who was pulling the strings behind the curtain.

Inside players like the recently departed trio probably have more than a guess about who might succeed Hein should he take the train (to higher office), and maybe they don't relish it.

The second piece, called the systematic error, is not much more than a guess about other possible variations in the result.

Until more research either confirms or disproves this possible explanation, it is nothing more than a guess, but an interesting one to consider nonetheless.

Well, what a waste then... could have sold more than that I guess.

Of course, this is nothing more than a guess.

Actually, the 60 - 70 million figure is not only «in dispute,» it is nothing more than a guess.

They are also nothing more than guesses.

Well, this is more than a guess (stay tuned for new paper, coming week of Oct 11).

I dispute that anyone has anything more than a guess as to what the value of climate sensitivity is; however defined.

Of course there are infinite possible scenarios about the undermapped deeps, but the important point is that a measurment expressed as (say) 3.4 + / - 0.4 mm per year is nothing more than a guess.

Climatologists have been spending far too much of their grant moneys toying around with models that include fudge factors for water vapor and clouds that are little more than guesses, making the models almost cartoons, instead of tackling the «toughest part» of the project.

If those confounding factors are not somehow adjusted for, then how well measurements of the tree rings correlate with actual temperature is little more than a GUESS, and likely not a good one.

3) Otherwise cosmic rays affecting climate is a worthless idea that is nothing more than a guess and Svensmark is just chasing taxpayer funding and grants and perhaps should be investigated for fraud.

How does one account uncertainty in past adjustments when these are absolute changes of bias, often little more than a guess, and not statistical ranges amenable to precision - style statistics?

But as Fried & Hansson point out, planning is nothing more than guessing.

A life insurance quote is nothing more than a guess «based on the information that the agent has when giving it».

Predicting what may or may not go wrong with your apartment situation in Ravenna is nothing more than a guessing game.

Not exact matches

Having learned early in my career that nobody cares about my professional well - being more than me, I committed myself to coming up with more useful assessments of my professional health than «Pretty good, I guess.»

My guess is, this venture will give us far more insight into effective care delivery than we can now imagine.

While these factors may drive a further moderate increase in valuations, our guess is that the majority of the re-rating is now behind us, absent a more material improvement in the economic landscape than we currently forecast.

«In four separate experiments, participants more accurately guessed the pictured emotion based on body language — alone or combined with facial expressions — than on facial context alone.»

That price dynamic is remarkably sensitive — probably more than many economists would guess.

Decades of research show that working more than 40 hours a week is unsustainable and severely dents productivity per hour, and neuroscientists and others warn that failing to give your brain adequate time to rest and recuperate is a recipe for disaster (which you might guess that many people have grasped for themselves, given the current mania for «mindfulness»).

More than he would ever have guessed.

Test - takers no longer will lose points for wrong answers, a feature meant to discourage guessing but that produced agonized complaints that the exam was more an exercise in strategy than a measure of college - readiness.

The problem is that some guesses are more educated than others, and even the best are often not good enough.

I guess I'm not surprised, Trump changes positions more often than a porn star with a bad back.»

«My guess is what will happen there will be some benefits that are more portable and more modularized than those that are offered,» he said.

Then pages of numbers promise huge returns but offer little more than wide - eyed guesses.

If one choice was more expensive than the other, guess which one they went with?

How the U.S. dollar can be worth more than the Loonie right now is anyone's guess.

Non-techie Warren Buffett buys more IBM shares for Berkshire Hathaway than Watson could probably guess.

They take more trips to Europe and Asian than the rest of us, and — guess what — they drink more champagne.

First, you'll come up with a much more appropriate figure than if you just try to guess based on your own experience.

Given that Zaslav's 2010 pay package was valued at more than $ 40 million, I guess Velocity will be too downscale for him.

After more than 80 rounds of matching and guessing faces to occupations, the researchers found that the participants were able to accurately pick out the business, military and sports leaders more consistently than if they were guessing by chance.

«I would hazard to guess there are more foreign intelligence officers inside the U.S. working against U.S. interests now than even at the height of the Cold War,» said Crumpton.

And guess what — hobby losses are more limited than business losses.

They're not a full - on substitute for lack of sleep but they can do much more than you think and in less time than you'd guess.

This week's chart is a bit mind - boggling, because it makes the case that Google is even more dominant than you may have guessed.

And he will, my guess is, will surprise us on the upside, because he is duly modest about — a lot of things — more so than is necessary.

I guess nothing can be more personal than body contact, but for me a hug says, «This isn't about you or me individually; it's about us as a team.»

I guess I'm more of an idealist than anything else.