Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of estimating at too low a rate, or the state of being so estimated; undervaluation.
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- noun An
underestimate
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- noun an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value
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Examples
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I would just like to point out that unless the authors of the quoted paper ARE willing to quantify “the full extent of the resulting cost underestimation”, why should we accept their conclusion that “the underestimation is clearly economically significant”? —
Is California’s Environmental Policy Worth Fighting For? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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While quantifying the full extent of the resulting cost underestimation is beyond the scope of our study, the underestimation is clearly economically significant.
Is California’s Environmental Policy Worth Fighting For? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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While quantifying the full extent of the resulting cost underestimation is beyond the scope of our study, the underestimation is clearly economically significant.
Is California’s Environmental Policy Worth Fighting For? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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This is a comment on the work related to what we think is a specific and serious drawback of the *statistical methods* applied for reconstructions, namely the underestimation of the low-frequency variability.
von Storch and Zorita blog on the Hockey Stick « Climate Audit 2007
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It's not an "underestimation" of Dion to say he's not a great communicator, for example.
Archive 2008-09-01 ALW 2008
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It's not an "underestimation" of Dion to say he's not a great communicator, for example.
On Underestimating Stephane Dion ALW 2008
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The Biloxi Sun-Herald, which twice endorsed Barbour for governor, wrote that Barbour's "underestimation" of the oil disaster left had left Mississippi's Gulf Coast "more vulnerable" than that of neighboring states.
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Our method adjusts the biased cCFR by a factor of underestimation which is informed by the time from symptom onset to death.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hiroshi Nishiura et al. 2009
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Kocka calls such figures an "underestimation," due largely to a shortage of information.
Daily News-Record 2008
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This sense of instant accessibility was easy to confuse with ready understanding: it was a fatal underestimation of cultural and religious difference.
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