  A recently introduced method for determining the critical indices of the
deconfinement transition in gauge theories, already tested for the case of 3D
SU(3) pure gauge theory, is applied here to 4D SU(2) pure gauge theory. The
method is inspired by universality and based on the finite size scaling
behavior of the expectation value of simple lattice operators, such as the
plaquette. We obtain an accurate determination of the critical index $\nu$, in
agreement with the prediction of the Svetitsky-Yaffe conjecture.
