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overestimate

[oh-ver-es-tuh-meyt, oh-ver-es-tuh-mit] / ˌoʊ vərˈɛs təˌmeɪt, ˈoʊ vərˈɛs tə mɪt /














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For now, the most human thing about humanoid robots may be our tendency to overestimate them.

From The Wall Street Journal

Never overestimate Europe’s ability to fix its own problems.

From The Wall Street Journal

The real risk is timing: overestimating job losses, underestimating the long, quiet rewiring already under way, and overlooking the jobs created in the backbone.

From The Wall Street Journal

That’s a reference to the Dunning-Kruger effect — you know, the tendency of those willfully or unalterably ignorant to vastly overestimate their abilities and/or intelligence.

From Salon

The Dunning-Kruger effect is the tendency for people to overestimate their level of knowledge in a subject they know little about.

From Salon