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Guesswork vs Forecasting - What's the difference?

guesswork | forecasting |

As nouns the difference between guesswork and forecasting

is that guesswork is an estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information while forecasting is a forecast or prediction.

As a verb forecasting is

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guesswork

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

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  • An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.
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    • Related terms

    * guesstimate

    See also

    * dead reckoning

    forecasting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A forecast or prediction.
  • * 1852 , The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)
    • There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin