What's the difference between certitude and overconfidence?
Certitude
Definition:
(n.) Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty.
Example Sentences:
(1) The changes are so typical that the manner and even the object of sucking can often be inferred from them with considerable certitude.
(2) Extension of previous studies adds to the ever-growing body of nursing knowledge and increases the certitude, casualty, and generalizability of such investigations.
(3) Moreover, certain arteries are not easily accessible and thus not always found or at least recognized with certitude.
(4) Certitude has taken this approach to support patients with mental ill health.
(5) Or at least the profound certitude of a fundamentalist cleric.
(6) A ham-fisted attempt to explain away the picture as a prank by hackers failed, as did a subsequent claim that he could not say with "certitude" that he was the man behind the bulge.
(7) The inflammatory reactions around the fungus give the certitude that it is a pathogen and not a contaminant.
(8) Scientist's norms (principally honesty, objectivity, tolerance, doubt of certitude, and unselfish engagement) are in danger of serious distortion unless broadened to apply to the relations between scientists and nonscientists.
(9) This technique makes it possible to obtain a bacteriological certitude in 31 cases (65 per cent): Pott's disease (40 per cent) and 12 pyogene spondylodiscites (25 per cent), with 17 punctures remaining negative, including 5 technical failures, the needle not penetrating into the pinched disc.
(10) The decision as to whether anticoagulant treatment should be instituted must be based on the certitude of the diagnosis, and this can be obtained in an atraumatic manner by ultrasonography of the popliteal fossa as shown by iconography.
(11) In two cases, this test was the only way that permits us to have certitude of candidosis ocular diagnosis.
(12) In the group with primary reflux, barium swallow tests and endoscopy were useful in confirming the diagnosis in patients with typical symptoms; routine biopsy, lower esophageal sphincter, manometry or an acid infusion test did not add to diagnostic certitude.
(13) In four cases out of six the histological test of the pleural fragment has rendered evident the presence of tubercular lymphoepithelioid nodulus with central necrosis, thus carrying the argument of certitude.
(14) Over the past 20 years, numerous investigators have implied or stated with increasing certitude that clonogenic assays are the most valid (or only valid) approach to predictive chemosensitivity testing.
(15) The influence of altitude can be demonstrated with certitude.
(16) Seeing as he was in reality monstrously wrong, this certitude had dire consequences.
(17) The definitive diagnosis of certitude can only be made by electron microscopy with the identification of various developmental stages of the parasites.
(18) We’re yet to be convinced that you could have a sufficient rules-base and certitude by alternative approaches.
(19) But Wilson cautioned against going after Rubio, who he said has a “natural talent, speed and certitude” that Bush simply lacks.
(20) Treatment is exclusively surgical and diagnosis is confirmed with certitude by histopathology only.
Overconfidence
Definition:
(n.) Excessive confidence; too great reliance or trust.
Example Sentences:
(1) Second, if you follow this line of reasoning, men in general tend to be overconfident (pdf) – the quantity of submissions has nothing to do with the quality of submissions.
(2) First comes a feeling of euphoria: then the diver gets overconfident, lulled into a false sense of security, and dangerously overestimates how long they have left.
(3) This papillary malignant transformation, not previously observed in inverted papillomas, cautions against overconfidence in benign nature of inverted papilloma.
(4) All would have been more suspicious about King's overconfident advice.
(5) This does not appear to be due simply to overconfidence in their abilities, since it was the younger and less experienced pilots who held the most unrealistically optimistic appraisals of their ability.
(6) Arrogant overconfidence by the NHS – imagine that – means that what should be an extraordinary asset both to patient care and to the UK science base may have been lost for the foreseeable future.
(7) As in Dunning et al., moreover, overconfidence could be traced to two sources.
(8) Overconfidence and underconfidence indices were also calculated by using the indicated levels of certainty.
(9) That impact has rightly produced a challenge to the overconfident intellectual assumptions of the pre-crisis era – assumptions never more prevalent than in some pre-crisis Davos meetings.
(10) Of key importance, depressed Ss were less accurate in their predictions, and thus more overconfident, than their nondepressed counterparts.
(11) It was a policy pushed by an Afghan government anxious to get British soldiers to fight the insurgency in key areas, and overconfident British officers eagerly pursued it.
(12) Further analysis revealed two specific sources of overconfidence.
(13) The "well encapsulated" pleomorphic adenoma has at best a pseudocapsule which allows for bits of satellite tumor to be left behind at ""enucleation" surgery as well as for easy "spillage" of tumor by the overconfident surgeon.
(14) In the end its overconfidence was its ruin; one interviewee too many, shackled naked to a chair, had been half suffocated with a plastic bag to force a confession.
(15) (3) Generally speaking, guidance should be given not to be overconfident or overdefensive in pregnancy.
(16) Unanticipated outcomes included: Alcohol intoxication significantly hindered recall from long-term memory, contrary to previous conclusions that alcohol does not affect retrieval; people's expectancy of alcohol had no significant effect on memory or metamemory performance, contrary to its established effects on other kinds of performance; and alcohol intoxication produced no significant overconfidence in judgments about recall or in feeling-of-knowing judgments, contrary to the overconfidence produced in other kinds of judgments such as an intoxicated person's assessment of his driving ability.
(17) Overconfidence in clinicians was examined in two independently designed studies, each using a different research approach.
(18) This previously described method allows the examinee to receive 'overconfidence' and 'underconfidence' scores.
(19) Scores of British troops have been killed in Sangin since Tony Blair, egged on by overconfident British generals, dispatched more than 3,000 service men and women to Helmand in 2006.
(20) Buoyed for the previous decade by absurdly high inflows of globally generated credit that created false booms, they suddenly found their overconfident banks had wildly lent too much.