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The problem with these stories is that they show what the data shows: women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
And the fourth is: people underestimate risks in situations they do control and overestimate them in situations they don't control.
We cannot afford to underestimate this problem.
We should not underestimate it.
It's our tendency to overestimate our likelihood of experiencing good events in our lives and underestimate our likelihood of experiencing bad events.
So we underestimate our likelihood of suffering from cancer, being in a car accident.
The British government, for example, has acknowledged that the optimism bias can make individuals more likely to underestimate the costs and durations of projects.
We consistently underestimate what criminals and terrorists can do.
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.
But you can never know, because, as a historian, I know that you should never underestimate human stupidity.
Do not underestimate the transformative power of truly modern markets.
He said, "You can't underestimate the power of doing this."
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10."
Well, Arthur C. Clarke, a famous science fiction writer from the 1950s, said that, "We overestimate technology in the short term, and we underestimate it in the long term."
But then very quickly, I started to underestimate my mustache growing ability, and it got way too big.
Again, we asked people how much they expected to change over the next 10 years, and also how much they had changed over the last 10 years, and what we found, well, you're going to get used to seeing this diagram over and over, because once again the rate of change does slow as we age, but at every age, people underestimate how much their personalities will change in the next decade.
Thankfully, criminals underestimate the power of fingerprints, too.
And this brings me to my next lesson: Never underestimate your opponents.
And we shouldn't underestimate the scale and the transformative nature of the change which will be needed, because we have to go to zero carbon emissions by about 2050, if we're going to stay below two degrees Celsius of warming.
The first component is just the body, and in fact we should never underestimate to what extent the biomechanics already simplify locomotion in animals.
And I think this is a very important message from biomechanics and robotics to neuroscience, saying don't underestimate to what extent the body already helps locomotion.
While many reasons had led to the Syrian war, we shouldn't underestimate the way in which, by contributing to the loss of identity and self-respect, urban zoning and misguided, inhumane architecture have nurtured sectarian divisions and hatred.
In our networked organizations, we tout the strength of weak ties but we underestimate the strength of strong ones.
Man, don't underestimate the power of a mother determined to keep her children safe.
We all have power and influence where we are, so we must never, never underestimate our own potential.
Don't underestimate the power of words.
One of the things I know as a historian is that you should never underestimate human stupidity.
Or they underestimate what they don't know.
And yet, I have found all too often, women underestimate their own strength, their potential and their self-respect.
Why is it that we underestimate feelings and perceptions?
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