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- verb To
predict to be higher than the actual value
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By the way, beyond the ethical issues, the failure to consider ethical and social restraints against abusive behavior means that economic models generally greatly overpredict economic crimes by firms.
Economics and Moral Intuition, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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All you have to know about racial bias and the SATs is this: The scores of black students overpredict their performance in college.
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The SAT turns out to overpredict the performance of black students at colleges.
War Power Grab 2008
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Since a recent 2-year average is not higher than a 20-year average from 1906 through 1925, we conclude that either such models overpredict the signal, or other compensatory climate changes are occurring.
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Since a recent 2-year average is not higher than a 20-year average from 1906 through 1925, we conclude that either such models overpredict the signal, or other compensatory climate changes are occurring.
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Looking at the graphic here, the models overpredict September arctic ice for the last 30 yrs, and outside the std dev for a decade or so.
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In fact, don't SAT scores overpredict actual black academic performance once admitted to college?
More on "Should we ignore the racial gap in IQ?" Steve Sailer 2005
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Note that regression estimates for 1965–1999 overpredict ring width values.
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At longer time scales, energy conservation tells us that the ocean-atmosphere system must necessarily average to equilibrium, so using a fluctuation spectrum derived at ENSO timescales would probably tend to overpredict long-term fluctuations.
Pelletier [2002] on Temperature Autocorrelation « Climate Audit 2005
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In fact, don't SAT scores overpredict actual black academic performance once admitted to college?
Archive 2005-09-18 Steve Sailer 2005
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