-
missing information. An
estimate that
turns out to be
incorrect will be an
overestimate if the
estimate exceeds the
actual result and an
underestimate if the...
- The
illusion of
transparency is a
tendency for
people to
overestimate the
degree to
which their personal mental state is
known by others.
Another manifestation...
-
privy to
those feelings than they are themselves. Consequently, they
overestimate the
extent to
which their anxiety is
obvious to onlookers. In fact, Clark...
- bias in
which people with
limited competence in a
particular domain overestimate their abilities. It was
first described by
Justin Kruger and
David Dunning...
-
following are
types of apophenia:
Clustering illusion, the
tendency to
overestimate the
importance of
small runs, streaks, or
clusters in
large samples of...
- literature,
overconfidence has been
defined in
three distinct ways: (1)
overestimation of one's
actual performance; (2)
overplacement of one's performance...
- thought. The
availability heuristic, for example, is the
tendency to
overestimate the
importance of
something which happens to come
readily to mind. Elements...
- 3s": 1
metre is
nearly equivalent to 3 feet 3+3⁄8 inches. This
gives an
overestimate of 0.125 mm. The
ancient Egyptian cubit was
about 0.5 m (surviving rods...
- team). Optimism/Desirability Bias.
Gamblers also
exhibit optimism,
overestimating the
likelihood that
desired events will occur. Fans of NFL underdog...
-
shows this
average is
always an
overestimate of the
square root (as
noted below), and so it can
serve as a new
overestimate with
which to
repeat the process...