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Overestimate in sentence

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We can't overestimate the amount of despair that we are generating with places like this.
It's our tendency to overestimate our likelihood of experiencing good events in our lives and underestimate our likelihood of experiencing bad events.
We overestimate our longevity, our career prospects.
So the United Nations did just that, and they recently issued a report on this whole area, and what they concluded was the power of this technology for positive was much greater than the risk for negative, and they even looked specifically at the DIYbio community, and they noted, not surprisingly, that the press had a tendency to consistently overestimate our capabilities and underestimate our ethics.
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10."
I have friends who are very confident they can do certain things, but I realize that they overestimate their own competence.
Now, in a perfectly rational world, these should be the same number, but we overpay for the opportunity to indulge our current preferences because we overestimate their stability.
Memory based on short glimpses can be unreliable, and we often overestimate our own accuracy.
In fact, we frequently overestimate our own abilities.
Surely that causes people to overestimate the likelihood that they'll be hurt in these various ways, and gives power to the very people who want to frighten us.
We also tend to overestimate the value of small probabilities.
But whether we are young or old, excessive anxiety leads us to overestimate risk and distress while underestimating our ability to cope.
I would have given it "0"/10, but the lowest mark was 1/10 and so I had to overestimate it by one mark.
In general, there is a tendency to overestimate the economic benefits of big infrastructure projects in countries riddled by poor governance and corruption, and to underestimate the long-run social costs of having to repay loans whether or not promised revenues materialize.
In the more tech-oriented economies, like the US, the United Kingdom, and the Nordic countries, there is a risk that traditional macroeconomic models will overestimate the cost pressure from labor.
After a prolonged period of accelerating demand growth, notably from China, governments came to regard high commodity prices as semi-permanent – an assumption that caused them to overestimate their future revenues.
French President Jacques Chirac recently implied that we should not overestimate the seriousness of Iran’s possessing nuclear weapons.
It is difficult to overestimate chronic pain’s societal impact.
But imprecision is one thing; the systematic overestimate of the economic recovery in Europe is quite another.
At the same time, we should not overestimate the longer-run impact of football’s “feel-good” factor in influencing political and social events.
It is impossible to overestimate how significant a step Barack Obama’s election is in this direction, but America’s actions over the coming years will be the ultimate determinant of whether the power of America’s model can be restored.
To be sure, one should not overestimate the eurozone’s long-term economic strength.
Quantitative analysis of decisions across many domains, including environmental policy, business investments, and cyber security, has shown that people tend to overestimate the amount of data needed to make a good decision or misunderstand what type of data are needed.
This heuristic, in turn, leads us to overestimate our ability to predict the future under what we perceive to be “similar” circumstances.
In other words, Americans overestimate upward social mobility and underestimate the likelihood of remaining stuck in poverty for generations.
European respondents are more pessimistic about mobility: unlike Americans, they overestimate the odds of remaining in poverty.
And it is failing today, leading the Fed consistently to overestimate underlying inflation.
The problem is that Obama has a strong tendency to overestimate America’s ability to influence weaker actors.
They tend to overestimate the efficacy of military means in eliminating threats, while underestimating the role of diplomacy, intelligence, or law enforcement.
America’s third mistake was to overestimate how effective conventional military power would be in dealing with the weak states and networked transnational organizations that characterize international politics, at least in the broader Middle East.
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