informed guess

One poll by the data and intelligence company Stears tried to solve this problem by making an informed guess about which way the “silent voters” would cast their ballots based on their profiles and how they responded to other questions.

I don’t think that’s enough information to make an informed guess about whether this new lens is a telephoto, an ultrawide, or something else, though I’m hoping I’ll be able to use that second camera to take pictures of the new best boy Fidough.

Penrose pieced together clues that suggested a conjecture—an informed guess, not an airtight proof—that general relativity would never make that prediction.

The experts looked at each task and made an informed guess as to whether it could be automated, assuming state-of-the-art technology, the enormous data sets that fuel modern A.I., and future engineering breakthroughs that have not yet occurred.

Mine is an informed guess of the sort that bookies used to make based on my 20-some years covering politics, the polls and what my sources behind the lines are telling me.