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inexact science

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inexact
adjective
uk /ˌɪn.ɪɡˈzækt/ us /ˌɪn.ɪɡˈzækt/
not exact or not known ...
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science
noun
uk /ˈsaɪ.əns/ us /ˈsaɪ.əns/
(knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of theories to describe the results of ...
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Examples of inexact science


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It should be noted that water analysis in the mid-nineteenth century was an inexactscience.
The conversion of effect measures to a common metric is an inexactscience.
We are discussing an inexactscience.
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In practice, however, preconditioning is an inexactscience because different preconditioners work better for different kinds of problems.
The household projection process is at best an inexactscience.
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Clearly estimating duty fraud is an inexactscience.
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It became apparent that this is an inexactscience.
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In many ways this is an inexactscience.
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Randomizing patients acts as a "hedge" against the need for more data, given that sample size calculation is an inexactscience.
It was a notoriously inexactscience and was often no more than an educated guess.
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That is why valuation, under the old rating system, was a most inexactscience.
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After all, economic forecasting is a notoriously inexactscience, as he said in the debate yesterday.
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At the same time, we recognise that it is an inexactscience.
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I say to him that economics is a notoriously inexactscience.
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I have always been struck by the extent to which economics is such an inexactscience.
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By their very nature industrial relations will always be an inexactscience.
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By its very nature, quantifying fare evasion is an inexactscience.
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Did not last summer's crisis demonstrate that exam marking is a somewhat inexactscience?
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We are not even in the realm of psephology, which is an inexactscience.
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We are talking about an inexactscience, if that is the right expression to use.
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Of course, intelligence is an inexactscience, as has been said many times in recent weeks.
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There is a twin problem because, by its nature, traffic forecasting is an inexactscience.
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Scouting and drafting will always be an inexactscience/art.
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It is a very inexactscience at the moment because it necessarily depends on so many arbitrary assumptions and apportionments.
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The truth is that the whole business of deficits or surpluses in the budget is an extremely inexactscience.
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