It's a technique called collaborative filtering, and it works on the principle that the behavior of a lot of people can be used to make educated guesses about the behavior of a single individual.

这就是所谓的“协同筛选”技术，该项技术所依据的原则是：可以依据大多数人的行为对个体行为作出有根据的推测。

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Treatment can be tricky. Since the patient cannot explain what is wrong, veterinarians and handlers must make educated guesses about the traumatizing events.

因为患者无法表达，兽医和训犬师只能通过专业知识猜测造成创伤的事件。

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And of course, the hedonist will also hasten to point out that just because we can't do this perfectly or infallibly, that doesn't mean we can't make educated guesses, right?

当然享乐主义者也会急于指出,不能因为无法完美绝对地做到，就意味着不能做出有根据的猜想？

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Other word clues helped him make educated guesses at his or her workplace.

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Many stats aren't released at all, leaving outside researchers to use whatever data they can find to make educated guesses.

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The law-and-economics framework for analysing mergers, for example, does not obviate the need for trust-busters to make educated guesses about how competition might develop in future.

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