For the sake of discussion, I'll make
my estimates on the low side.
Not exact matches
And we seem to feel our friends and family are trending
on the naughty
side, since the $ 720
estimate in November is actually
lower than the projection in October, when Gallup found the average commitment to be $ 781.
While Wells Fargo's closing cost
estimate is
on the
low side, their predicted monthly payment gives an APR that is close to what is paid by the average mortgage borrower.
As a former junk market professional specializing in special situations like this, I can say with certainty that the Wall Street Journal's
estimate of losses will end up being
on the
low side.
I also used very conservative assumptions where appropriate since I'd much rather be wrong
on the
low side than wrong
on the high
side when
estimating net worth.
«Our
estimates may actually be
on the
low side,» Dr. Novack says.
Again, while no expert
on either
side could produce for the Court any hard numbers regarding how many «grossly ineffective» teachers were in fact being protected but such archaic rules and procedures, I would
estimate (as based
on my years of experience as a teacher) that this number is much
lower than many believe it (and perhaps perpetuate it) to be.
I find that it tends to be
on the
low side of
estimates I get from shops, but maybe I'm not shopping around enough.
I expect that my fuel economy is usually
on the
low side due to the demands of testing and photographing, but to miss the EPA's
low estimate by 5 mpg is a bit disappointing.
Christie's
estimated the Vanquish Centenary Edition would fetch between $ 400,000 to $ 600,000 so it sold
on the
lower side.
The massive and ongoing sales success of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy is pretty remarkable (over 20,000 copies this week), made more so by two factors, the first that supply has clearly been a major issue, several bookshops tweeted or Facebooked pictures of fresh stock arriving into their office or reported that the stock they had recieved was already sold out again, the second that sales as reported through Nielsen do not include firm sales for many independents (these are instead «
estimated» but for a freak title like this, I'd wager any estimation is
on the
low side, especially because the sales for the trilogy seem to have been happening across the board).
While Wells Fargo's closing cost
estimate is
on the
low side, their predicted monthly payment gives an APR that is close to what is paid by the average mortgage borrower.
On the bottom
side are Ovidiu Maitec's Portes with -89.3 percent difference between hammer price and
low estimate, followed by Leonor Fini's Personnage (with -62.2 percent), Jiri Georg Dokoupil's Sans Titre (with -60 percent) and Dennis Oppenheim's Newton Discovering Gravity (with -50.2 percent).
On the bottom
side are Suling Wang's Untitled, sold with -66.7 percent difference between hammer price and
low estimate, followed by Eva Rothschild's N.G.O (with -56.7 percent) and Marius Bercea's Wild Waste (with -30 percent).
Requote... «for Otto et al (2013), the
estimated TCR without taking account of the efficacies is 1.3 ºC (which is
on the
low side of other
estimates), but with this effect accounted for, it is closer to 1.8 ºC.»
Either way, that means that the influence of a CO2 doubling will be
on the
low side of the IPCC
estimates or even below.
The total costs are actually relatively
low, being
estimated at around $ 50 - 60million, with some ongoing investment
on the enforcement
side.
Now comes a new entry in the effort to specify the value known as «climate sensitivity,» and it falls
on the
low side of the existing
estimates.
While the models get the warming just about right for the current concentrations of CO2, the fact that they tend to have
lower estimates of historical emissions means that the carbon budgets based
on the relationship between cumulative CO2 emissions and warming tend to be
on the
low side.
The original paper reports a climate sensitivity range with a
lower 90 % CI boundary of 1.6 K, a median of 6.1 K, and a modal value of 2.1, putting it
on the higher
side of climate sensitivity
estimates (Fig. 2 above).
Also, the Gregory 02 central
estimate for the total change in forcings between 1861 — 1900 and 1957 — 1994 of 0.36 W m - 2 looks
on the
low side to me.
But arguments over the precise value of climate sensitivity duck the wider point, which is that even if we're lucky and climate sensitivity is
on the
low side of scientists»
estimates, we're still heading for a substantial level of warming by the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions aren't addressed, as the IPCC has highlighted.
On a
side, note, as I was doing my google searches to find exact titles and links for the above, I came across a new paper by Craig Loehle also
estimating low climate sensitivity (1.99 C per doubling).
The AMO is a toothless tiger, and any CS
estimate based upon the notion that it raised global temperatures in the last half of the 20th century is likely very wrong
on the
low side.
The international scientific community's new assessment of the
estimated sea level rise caused by global warming is a significant development, but experts say the projections for higher sea levels in the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate (IPCC) assessment report (AR5) are still
on the
low side.
And indeed one wonders whether the semi-empirical models would have been also excluded had they resulted in
lower estimates of sea - level rise, or whether we see «erring
on the
side of the least drama» at work here.
Alley acknowledged that the IPCC's sea level rise
estimate «is well
on the optimistic
low - rise
side of the possible outcomes,» and added that «the
estimates in the new paper of freshening, and discussion of stabilization of the southern ocean and influences
on precipitation, are interesting and important.»
In the case of the company's entry - level iPads, those
estimates tend to be
on the
low side, as Apple's processors have continued to make web browsing more efficient while keeping the batteries the same size, with the exception of the iPad mini 4, which actually shrunk its enclosure from the prior generation, losing battery size in the process.
Real estate agent Emily Guthrie
estimates that since 2007 she has had 20 sellers who have been willing to start out
on the
low side.