misestimate

present singular third person misestimates · participle present misestimating · participle past misestimated · past misestimated

1. 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

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   [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

plural misestimates

1. An erroneous estimate.

   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

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   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