rough measure

One rough measure of the current toll is the number of permits issued for movie and TV filming in Los Angeles.

In a recent deep dive on preseason projections, FanGraphs’ Ben Clemens wrote: “I’d treat them as a rough measure of the major league franchise’s prospects in the coming year. Angry about your team being projected for 86 wins instead of 88? I don’t think our projections are amazing at doing that kind of fine parsing.”

Nonetheless, for a rough measure of Continental Drift’s complexity, he calculated that it has 7 × 10³¹ states, or possible configurations.

This is a rough measure of consumption lost to the epidemic and lockdowns, some of which will be restored as the economy restarts.

One rough measure of race is language, with an estimated 6% of the population speaking at least one of the dozens of Indigenous languages that exist here.