horse sense

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More likely, it was something in American Pharoah’s horse sense that told him the man in the suit was a weak specimen.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2019

“Some of them, my horse sense says that they’re kind of enjoying giving me a certain shock, and there’s a certain theatrical aspect … but I can’t know.”

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2018

“End of the Rainbow” was rudimentary as a play, but Rader doesn’t even have Quilter’s dramatic horse sense.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2017

“One of the all-time great horses in this era,” said Sherman, whose horse sense comes hard-earned.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016

The estimates provide a good example of how numerical horse sense can check pseudoscientific ravings.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos