eyeballing

One scientist is on record saying he thinks it could be a lot higher, although he was just kind of eyeballing the plume, and it does look more dramatic.

New Oil Estimates Show Spill Rate Much Higher 2010

Next time I'm running up fast against a hard deadline, I'm sure I can cut corners by "eyeballing".

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

As for the photos...maybe but I think that's the same as "eyeballing" it.

Better than Food Diary? Steven Barnes 2008

When I see that, I start getting Greenberg-itis, the kind of rash one gets when reading claims of translations built on whimsy and on "eyeballing" for subjective similarities.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

While a remote relationship with Etruscan and Indo-European is possible, the method of subjectively "eyeballing" similarities between languages to tease a translation out of them is simply not acceptable in modernday comparative linguistics.

The imaginary Etruscan imperative in -thi 2007

This is not the comparative method in action but rather the mislabeled "whimsical method" a.k.a. the classic 'eyeballing' method.

Zavaroni, his 'comparative method' and TLE 193 2007

When I see that, I start getting Greenberg-itis, the kind of rash one gets when reading claims of translations built on whimsy and on "eyeballing" for subjective similarities.

Etruscan nesl, TLE 515 and other random Etruscan stuff 2007

While a remote relationship with Etruscan and Indo-European is possible, the method of subjectively "eyeballing" similarities between languages to tease a translation out of them is simply not acceptable in modernday comparative linguistics.

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

This is not the comparative method in action but rather the mislabeled "whimsical method" a.k.a. the classic 'eyeballing' method.

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

Using the dendroclimatological statistical technique of "eyeballing", I do not observe any reason why the Polar Urals series is particularly problematic.

Variance Stabilization in Esper Chronologies « Climate Audit 2006