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misestimate en · NOUN
Etymology
From mis- + estimate.
Meanings
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An erroneous estimate.
To illustrate the nature of this problem, a misestimate of 0.01 on a favorite whose true winning probability is 0.20 is, in percentage terms, quite small compared to a misestimate of 0.01 on a long shot whose true winning probability is 0.04.
2002, Nick Mordin, Winning Without Thinking: A Guide to Horse Race Betting Systems, →ISBN, page 397:This was due not to pro-German sympathies but to a plain misestimate (not confined to him) of the real relative strengths of the various political forces.
1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 76:
Forms
Hyponyms
misunderestimation
Relateds
misprojection · misextrapolation
misestimate en · VERB
Etymology
From mis- + estimate.
Meanings
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To estimate erroneously.
However, in the absence of real data on actual language use in the aural-oral landscape, there will always exist the possibility to misestimate such impacts.
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12:[W]e shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account, while we mis-estimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance.
1846, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Rationcinative and Inductive, volume IV, page 560:
Forms
Deriveds
misestimation
Hyponyms
misunderestimate
Relateds
misproject · misextrapolate
Translations (3)
pl źle oszacować (Translations) · fr mésestimer (Translations) · pl źle szacować (Translations)