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- noun Plural form of
overestimation .
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In other words, even if overestimations and underestimations are equally likely, we should generally expect lawyers to take strategies in which they overestimate their chance of success, and we should expect cases where the lawyers underestimated their chances of success should be relatively rare.
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In other words, even if overestimations and underestimations are equally likely, we should generally expect lawyers to take strategies in which they overestimate their chance of success, and we should expect cases where the lawyers underestimated their chances of success should be relatively rare.
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It must be marketing hype and overestimations of sales.
For Apple and Amazon the store IS the killer app : #comments 2008
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In this piece, Eban Goodstein and Hart Hodges trace a history of cost overestimations around environmental regulation.
David Roberts: Why We Overestimate the Costs of Tackling Climate Change 2009
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This reflects analysts 'natural optimism but they haven't learned much from their huge overestimations in previous years.
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Certain standards of under and overestimations are given us when there is near the object to be judged an object the size of which we know.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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These "bad overestimations" have cost the United States $823 billion in the past nine years.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sadia Ahsanuddin 2012
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These "bad overestimations" have cost the United States $823 billion in the past nine years.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sadia Ahsanuddin 2012
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Second, social media - by the very virtue of being "social" - lends itself to glib, pundit-style overestimations of its own importance.
The Guardian World News Evgeny Morozov 2011
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"We don't know why men make these overestimations, but there are a couple of likely reasons," lead author Clayton Neighbors said in a news release.
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