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- verb To
calibrate poorly or wrongly.
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Examples
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The GAO went so far as to miscalibrate the machines to try to fool them into miscounting.
Florida Footnote 2008
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Without accounting for these opposite responses and temperature thresholds, climate reconstructions based on ring width will miscalibrate past climate .
More on Positive and Negative Responders « Climate Audit 2007
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Without accounting for these opposite responses and temperature thresholds, climate reconstructions based on ring width will miscalibrate past climate .
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Without accounting for these opposite responses and temperature thresholds, climate reconstructions based on ring width will miscalibrate past climate.
Post-1980 Proxies #4: Wilmking et al. [2004] « Climate Audit 2005
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What highly competent and incompetent students share is this: both miscalibrate the perception of their own and of others 'performance.
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They were four times more likely to miscalibrate than their competent peers.
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