Inferences to hypotheses were sometimes made informally by eyeballing; sometimes, more formally, by critical ratios.
Similarly, the people who sit behind bank counters are not especially good at eyeballing potentially fraudulent benefit claimants.
We have seen the eyeballing techniques, fraternising with the accused and now the substitution of bogus jurors for people who simply do not want to turn up.
Eyeballing is the most common and readily available method of initial data assessment.