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- noun Insufficient
confidence .
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Examples
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“Bad writing is basically a dishonesty that has to do with an underconfidence in the idea that what you actually are is good enough.”
Bad Writing, Good Movie? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The big result: Choice behaviour changes from overconfidence to underconfidence when the task changes from easy and familiar to non-familiar.
Two Flawless Articles on Overconfidence, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It's hard to know which mistake Obama will make: over - or underconfidence.
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It seems to show that there's an issue of underconfidence as well: attorneys who thought their clients had less than a 45% chance of success (mean about 27%) won nearly half the time, while attorneys who thought their clients had more than a 55% chance of success won slightly more than half the time.
PointOfLaw Forum 2010
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He can address such psychological issues faced by athletes as choking under pressure, underconfidence or overconfidence, anxiety, psychiatric problems, performance-enhancing substances and resilience to adversity.
Media Newswire media-newswire.com 2010
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He can address such psychological issues faced by athletes as choking under pressure, underconfidence or overconfidence, anxiety, psychiatric problems, performance-enhancing substances and resilience to adversity.
Media Newswire 2010
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In the current context we are struggling between mystification and reductionism, underconfidence and overconfidence in regards to how to know what we know.
Everyday Liturgy 2008
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 Today I've slightly rewritten the same article to address underconfidence of bear markets.
GuruFocus Updates 2008
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It’s about the writer’s real view of the world and her attempt to articulate it being out of sync in some way, so it’s basically a dishonesty that has to do with an underconfidence in the idea that what you actually are is good enough.
Bad Writing, Good Movie? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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It’s about the writer’s real view of the world and her attempt to articulate it being out of sync in some way, so it’s basically a dishonesty that has to do with an underconfidence in the idea that what you actually are is good enough.
Bad Writing, Good Movie? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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