underestimation
IPA: ˈʌndɝˈɛstʌmˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (uncountable) The act of underestimating.
- (countable) An underestimate.
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Examples of "underestimation" in Sentences
- It's not an "underestimation" of Dion to say he's not a great communicator, for example.
- Kocka calls such figures an "underestimation," due largely to a shortage of information.
- Our method adjusts the biased cCFR by a factor of underestimation which is informed by the time from symptom onset to death.
- This sense of instant accessibility was easy to confuse with ready understanding: it was a fatal underestimation of cultural and religious difference.
- While quantifying the full extent of the resulting cost underestimation is beyond the scope of our study, the underestimation is clearly economically significant.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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”? —
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