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Guess

/ɡɛs/verb / noun
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To form an opinion or make an estimate about something without sufficient evidence or full knowledge, often relying on intuition or incomplete data. In modern contexts, it's commonly used in casual conversations for quick assumptions or in fields like science and AI for initial hypotheses that require further testing, highlighting the balance between creativity and accuracy.

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The concept of guessing is at the heart of the Monty Hall problem, a probability puzzle from a 1975 episode of Let's Make a Deal, which showed that switching doors after a reveal increases your chances of winning from 1/3 to 2/3—yet it fooled so many experts that mathematician Paul Erdős was initially skeptical until he simulated it himself.

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