back-fence

Adjective

back-fence (not comparable)

1. (usually) Informal; armchair; carried out by people without direct knowledge or formal expertise.
   • Deford indulges in the worst sort of back-fence psychologizing about how Big Bill, this marvelous athlete and star, ever got that way. Possible causes are his Irving Bieber childhood, with a dominant close-binding mother and a recessive or absent father […] and his inability to sublimate his sex...1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 14
   • It is no surprise that the most trusted health "professional" is a friend or family member rather than a health care provider, as it is friends and family members who actually experience the health care system. The Internet can play a crucial role in expanding this "back-fence" discussion among...2002, David I. Lewin, editor, Informing Consumers About Health Care Quality, page 17