misevaluate

present singular third person misevaluates · participle present misevaluating · participle past misevaluated · past misevaluated

1. To evaluate inaccurately or incorrectly.

   Eventually , the organism experiences itself as fundamentally endangered; to misevaluate the environment is to place oneself in jeopardy.

   1970, William Frank Fischer, Theories of Anxiety, page 159

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   If objectionable thick concepts are evaluative but misevaluate, there can be behaviors which are, say, lewd or perverted, but which are not bad.

   2013, Simon Kirchin, Thick Concepts, page 166

   As with the jurors who are likely to misevaluate the evidential import of certain pieces of evidence, the audience in this case is likely to misevaluate the testimony coming from women of color regarding instances of domestic violence.

   2020, Guy Axtell, Amiel Bernal, Epistemic Paternalism, page 227