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The second definition from Wiktionary is most appropriate for this situation:

> (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.

There is no evidence that asymptomatic people are 75% as infectious as symptomatic people. The 75% number was fabricated to allow them to build a model. Asymptomatic people could be 0% as infectious as symptomatic people. Or, by some unexpected turn of fate, they could be 200% as infectious as symptomatic people. The evidence doesn't exist.

Your link even mentions another scientist who believes that asymptomatic people are only 35% as infectious.



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