NOUN | an underestimate | underestimates | |
VERB | to underestimate | underestimated | underestimated underestimating | underestimates | |
SYNO | to lowball | to underestimate | to underrate | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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- Research also indicates that people tend to underestimate the likelihood that other individuals will comply with requests—called the underestimation of compliance effect.
- Where the solution curve is concave up, its tangent line will underestimate the vertical coordinate of the next point and vice versa for a concave down solution.
- • They also found that projects that get approval seem to be those that underestimate costs, understate environmental harm and overstate funding and economic benefits and transit ridership.
- As of 2016, about 7 percent of homeless people in the United States live in rural areas, although some believe that this is an underestimate.
- The underestimate penalty and interest on late payment are automatically assessed.
- The bias towards measuring larger parallaxes in turn results in an underestimate of distance and therefore an underestimate on the object's luminosity.
- It was initially expected that hundreds of compensation claims would be paid under the Act, a figure which later proved to be a gross underestimate.
- The rule assumes that the period between high and low tides is six hours but this is an underestimate and can vary anyway.
- But those estimations seem to underestimate the francization of Montreal for some experts, because statistics show that the proportion has already risen from 55.6% (1996) to 56.4% (2001).
- One possible scientific consequence of FTA dynamics is that gene flow measures based on the genetics of contemporary high-density populations may underestimate actual rates of dispersal and invasion potential.
- When the sample size is small, using the standard deviation of the sample instead of the true standard deviation of the population will tend to systematically underestimate the population standard deviation, and therefore also the standard error.
- Each of these indicators is expected to underestimate the true prevalence of disease in the population due to reduced levels of diagnosis.
- The uncritical view that "Europe First" dictated the allocation of resources throughout the war has caused many scholars to underestimate the resources required to defeat Japan.
- In 1946, the "Journal" adopted the slogan, "Never underestimate the power of a woman," which it continues to use today.
- The "Australian Broadcasting Corporation" quoted a warning from Clive Williams, an expert in terrorism from Macquarie University, not to underestimate Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
- There is a tendency to underestimate the number of people identifying themselves as Belarusians according to official censuses.
- Observers making attributions about the behavior of others may overemphasize internal attributions and underestimate external attributions; this is known as the fundamental attribution error.
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