(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.
Uncaring
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But this ad certainly does not shy away from its attempt to paint Romney as an uncaring, wealthy elitist – a task in which it is greatly helped by Romney's own words.
(2) The striking images of Cameron posing on the ice with huskies on the way to visiting a melting glacier in 2006 marked a turning point for the Conservatives, who had been seen by many voters as uncaring.
(3) Those who separated from an uncaring partner reported a distinct improvement in depressive symptoms.
(4) The health care system has been increasingly criticized for its uncaring providers, low quality of care, and unequal access.
(5) No such treatment for them; only an uncertain future with few prospects of re-employment, and uncaring treatment from the DWP, which is proactively cutting benefits.
(6) The clinical impression that phobic patients perceive their parents as being uncaring and overprotective was investigated in a controlled study of eighty-one phobic patients.
(7) It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim community to build a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero."
(8) The NDs, by contrast, were more likely than their controls to report their parents as uncaring and overprotective.
(9) He said: “The Conservatives are reckless, divisive and uncaring.
(10) Emancipatory interventions are provided to help nurses launch a new direction toward freeing their clients, rather than herding them through an uncaring and disjointed health and social service system.
(11) But … if the mutterers continue to mutter then all they will do is stop places like Neath [Hain’s south Wales constituency] from being liberated from this destructive, uncaring, unfair government that is destroying people’s lives.” He added: “I don’t think Labour party members will forgive some self-indulgent MP muttering to a journalist and producing a headline in the Daily Mail when those newspapers have always been Labour’s enemies.
(12) In the maternity unit, staff on the postnatal ward were found to be uncaring, while in the labour ward inspectors found blood stains on a stainless steel bowl in a room that staff said was ready to use.
(13) They noticed that 19 of the 20 patients were mentally slower; 11 were markedly aggressive and 8 had become placid and uncaring about family problems.
(14) "I have been in parliament for 40 years and I have never dealt with a government, Labour or Conservative, that has been so heartless and uncaring about individual immigration cases as this one," he said.
(15) But such a mood swing often occurs at the end of Labour administrations and the beginning of Conservative ones, and often reverses, into distaste at an "uncaring" government, once the British right has been in power for a few years.
(16) According to examination results higher DMF mean value, less uncared of teeth with caries (D) and, in the age group of 19 years and above 30 years, more edentulousness has been found than with healthy individuals.
(17) NHS inspectors have uncovered "a catalogue of failings" at a London hospital including uncaring staff, blood-stained equipment, poor hygiene standards, patients not being helped to eat and a high mortality rate.
(18) In the second group, B, the wound was left undressed and "uncared" for 24 to 36 hours after surgery.
(19) They seek to paint the supporters of sound finances as selfish, or uncaring.
(20) She has frequently been described to me as untrustworthy, corrupt and uncaring, the epitome of a rotten political establishment.