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Scientific wild-ass guess (SWAG) is an American English slang term meaning a rough estimate made by an expert in the field, based on experience and intuition. It is similar to the slang word guesstimate , a portmanteau of guess and estimate .
A guess made with no factual basis for its correctness may be called a wild guess. Jonathan Baron has said that "[t]he value of a wild guess is l/N + l/N - l/N = l/N", meaning that taking a true wild guess is no different from choosing an answer at random. [8] Philosopher David Stove described this process as follows:
For the first few seasons, contestants would "sign in" by writing their name on a chalkboard, and meet the panel up close for a casual inspection, and the panel was allowed one initial "wild" guess. The first contestant on What's My Line? was Pat Finch, a hat check girl at the Stork Club. [14]
A third mocked the guess, writing, "Oi, you best be off my swamp, mate, before I get properly cheesed off!” -The British Ogre." "This show never fails to LOL with contestants," someone else shared .
During the May 23 episode, Sajak simply said “no” after Williams’ wild guess before calling on a contestant named Blake, who responded, “This is the best!” Sajak then added, “Yeah ...
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"Wild Guess": A game-show send-up (similar to You Bet Your Life) with announcer Ken Kane (Bill Cosby in season 1, Morgan Freeman in seasons 2-6) and host Bess West (Rita Moreno), in which the contestant would guess the day's secret word. When the word was not guessed, West would give three clues as to what the word was.
Seriously wild-ass guess is the way that I've always heard it explained. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.87.74.235 00:21, 8 March 2007 (UTC). And yet again another urban legend. If you look at how many web pages refer to each phrase, scientific wild-ass guess seems the most common among the many variations on this theme.