educated guess

English

educated guess (plural educated guesses)

A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge.
His educated guess was correct to within 2%, but then, he's been doing this for 10 years and knows what range of values to expect.
- 2005 August 6, Guy Browning, “How to … guess”, in The Guardian‎:
  Everyone guesses: estimating is how people with a trade guess; educated guesses are what professional people do; hopeless stabs in the dark are what statisticians do.

guess based on experience or knowledge

Catalan: conjectura (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 有根據的推測／有根据的推测 (yǒu gēnjù de tuīcè)
Czech: kvalifikovaný odhad m
Finnish: valistunut arvaus (fi)
French: supposition éclairée f, supposition bien informée f, hypothèse raisonnée, hypothèse raisonnable f, hypothèse bien fondée f, à vue de nez (fr), au pifomètre (fr), estimation éclairée f, jugement approximatif m, approximation (fr) f, spéculation bien informée f, hypothèse éclairée f, à dire d’expert
German: fundierte Vermutung f
Hebrew: ניחוש מושכל
Italian: stima ragionata f, ipotesi plausibile f, supposizione plausibile f
Portuguese: palpite fundamentado m, suposição fundamentada f, hipótese fundamentada f, hipótese plausível f
Russian: обосно́ванное предположе́ние n (obosnóvannoje predpoložénije), предположе́ние (ru) n (predpoložénije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: učeno pogađanje n, učena pretpostavka f
Swedish: kvalificerad gissning c

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