The word
"overestimate" means to think or believe that something is better, bigger, or more important than it really is.
Full definition
Many people
overestimate how much they'll be able to work in retirement, and underestimate how much they'll spend.
However, such worries result from
overestimates of how many species may exist, beliefs that the expertise to describe species is decreasing, and alarmist estimates of extinction rates.
Our biggest challenge is
not overestimating what we can do with the funds, time, and team we've planned for the game's development.
The big innovations that they say will revolutionize our lives are grossly
overestimated in the short run and grossly underestimated in the long run.
Problem is, there's also a little thing called «wealth illusion,» a term behavioral economists use to describe the fact that people
often overestimate how much sustainable income they can draw from a large sum, which leaves them vulnerable from running through their money too soon.
For a sample of 15 activities, participants underestimated energy use and savings by a factor of 2.8 on average, with small
overestimates for low - energy activities and large underestimates for high - energy activities.
In fact, a 2005 study, amusingly titled «Egocentrism over e-mail,» found that people
vastly overestimate how often the recipient of a message will correctly identify their intended tone, whether serious or sarcastic.
This paper suggests that the CMIP5 models» (which IPCC relies upon) predicted US SW temperature sensitivity to the GHG has been
significantly overestimated by about a factor of two.
The short version is that Spencer and Braswell plugged in some unrealistic values of the main variables into their model, and automagically got answers that confirmed their hypothesis that standard climate models might be greatly
overestimating climate sensitivity.
«The claim that climate models systematically
overestimate global warming caused by rising greenhouse gas concentrations is wrong,» says Jochem Marotzke.
Now feed each of the piggybanks - including the bills account, which you should
always overestimate slightly - from your main account.
According to the report, ENTSOG, the primary source of information for the European Commission on gas demand forecasts, has
consistently overestimated demand for gas in the European Union — leading to unnecessary investments in gas infrastructure.
The danger of
overestimating demand is also removed: RP2 can be implemented incrementally, and problems can be dealt with as they arise.
they can answer with words to the effect, «We
slightly overestimated climate sensitivity, but as the science has progressed so we have corrected that in the light of new knowledge.
Indeed, it is also possible that the behaviour of parents
who overestimate what a young child can do may have a positive influence by transmitting high expectations.
Many stores put them on clearance just to get rid of them, and even Nintendo realized that neither HHD nor AF were selling them, so they updated NL massively to also use them - likely figured the 10.5 million users (
likely overestimate since many people own multiple copies) would buy the cards / figures, but guess what, that didn't work either!
Especially in the Tropics, where water vapor abundance is high, the ERBE clear - sky LW fluxes seem to be
systematically overestimated by about 4 W / m2, and shortwave (SW) fluxes are lower by about 5 - 10 W / m2.
When asked how much the yearly cost would be for a 20 - year $ 250,000 level term life insurance policy for a healthy 30 - year old, 80 percent of
millennials overestimated the cost — guessing $ 400 a year.
Far
from overestimating future climate change, climate models are more likely to be conservative in their predictions.
I always
overestimate on calories, and try not to eat food with extra sauces and stuff piled on top of it.
THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest assessment reportedly admits its computer
drastically overestimated rising temperatures, and over the past 60 years the world has in fact been warming at half the rate claimed in the previous IPCC report in 2007.
The audit advised both districts to stop proposing future budgets
with overestimated expenditures.
You will then be able to concentrate on the more serious arguments by the more sensible critics of the IPCC (and there are some from both sides, ie, critics who think the
IPCC overestimates potential warming and / or potential harm; and critics who think the IPCC underestimates potential warming and / or potential harm).
Imagine, for example, if
consumers overestimated the price of milk by a similar amount: at over $ 10 a gallon, many of us would abandon the 2 % and start pouring orange juice over our cereal.
The World Bank report noted that the resulting forecasts form basis for budget planning, adding that «these forecasts are frequently inaccurate, often by wide margins; ideally, oil - revenue projections should err on the side underestimation, as
overestimating future revenues can disrupt investment execution and undermine debt sustainability.»
But if that were the case, one might expect people to
overestimate as often as they underestimate their total credit card debt.
However, even accounting for the relatively large area of the GCM's computational elements (400 km × 500 km), Figure 2 shows that the GCM
still overestimates precipitation frequency.
Shumway (1997) pointed out that regular performance databases
overestimated small - cap stock returns because they did not include returns on delisted stocks.
Auditors found that the district
overestimated costs of teacher salaries, busing contracts and other expense items during that period by $ 24.9 million, or 4.6 percent of total appropriations.
And even if each host had 5 people complain (and that's a huge
overestimate based on the many conversations I've had with hosts over the years), that's still a drop in the bucket.
Oh, I know... the fact that infinite real world examples and various studies also prove that people trying to lose weight almost ALWAYS
overestimate calories burned.
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