misestimate

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ estimate

Verb

misestimate (third-person singular simple present misestimates, present participle misestimating, simple past and past participle misestimated)

To estimate erroneously.
- 1846, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Rationcinative and Inductive, volume IV, page 560:
  [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.
- 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 12:
  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.

Noun

misestimate (plural misestimates)

An erroneous estimate.
- 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 76:
  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.
- 2002, Nick Mordin, Winning Without Thinking: A Guide to Horse Race Betting Systems, →ISBN, page 397:
  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.

单词	misestimate
释义	misestimate English Etymology mis- +‎ estimate Verb misestimate (third-person singular simple present misestimates, present participle misestimating, simple past and past participle misestimated) To estimate erroneously. 1846, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Rationcinative and Inductive, volume IV, page 560: [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. 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 12: 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. Noun misestimate (plural misestimates) An erroneous estimate. 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 76: 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. 2002, Nick Mordin, Winning Without Thinking: A Guide to Horse Race Betting Systems, →ISBN, page 397: 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.
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