(n.) An estimate that is too high; as, an overestimate of the vote.
Example Sentences:
(1) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
(2) The use of a water manometer would have caused overestimation of the intravascular volume status of this patient during the nodal rhythm.
(3) there is a systematic tendency for high values to be underestimated and for low ones to be overestimated.
(4) (B) Systematic overestimation of EDV by Greene's method was corrected according to the regression equation proposed by Bentivoglio [9]; h was the same as in A.
(5) The proportion of companies complying with such a law may be overestimated if information on compliance is obtained only from employers.
(6) In short, while there was strong agreement between men and women, there were also replicated significant systematic differences with men overestimating the psychological impact of less intense incidents and underestimating the psychological impact on women of more intense incidents.
(7) The results can be summarized as follows: (a) the daily estimated durations of sleep and wakefulness were positively correlated with the actual durations in all but one subject; (b) sleep and wake times were better estimated in the presence of a light-dark cycle even if the subjects were not entrained by the zeitgeber; (c) for both episodes, there was a consistent trend from an overestimation of relatively short to an underestimation of long durations; (d) with equal durations in the two episodes, sleep was estimated to be shorter than wake time; (e) the most accurate estimates centered around 10.5 h of sleep and 13.5 h of wake time; (f) the sleep and wake times added up to 24 h in subjects who did not deliberately "compensate" for relatively long sleep estimates with a short wake estimate, with the full cycle being adjusted to 24 h.
(8) If subsequent studies confirm that AD patients' cognitive characteristics are similar to Piaget's theoretical model, nursing care might be individualized based on mental competence, thus minimizing the commonly observed caregiver overestimation and underestimation of the AD patient's ability to understand and cooperate.
(9) For example, if the risk estimates from underground miners' studies are, in truth, not applicable to home exposures and overestimate the gradient of risk from home exposure to radon by, for example, a factor of 2, then enormously large numbers of subjects would be required to detect the difference.
(10) We found that methods of classifying responses as oscillating used in some of the studies of the cat may have led to overestimation of both the number of sites showing oscillation and the number of pairs of sites showing phase coherence.
(11) In 71 (75%) of the 95 sera, the M-protein was underestimated and the albumin concentration overestimated.
(12) The use of the other three diluents resulted in an overestimation of C3a levels.
(13) Participants were classified into three groups, based on the pattern of their BAC estimation errors-Underestimators, Overestimators, or Mixed Pattern estimators.
(14) Visual evoked potentials, like forced preferential looking, may grossly overestimate the acuity of the amblyopic patient.
(15) Because the organization of testicular tissues in the beagle is quite different from rodents but more similar to human, the results from this study suggest that extrapolations from rodents to humans may tend to overestimate the potential for radiation exposure to spermatogonial stem cells as well as the fraction of the spermatogonial stem cell population at risk to exposure from internally deposited 239Pu.
(16) At the same time, though, al-Jazeera's role in promoting free flow of information and opening up political debate in the Middle East is hard to overestimate – its actions probably contributed towards the emergence of the "Arab spring".
(17) With OWC as reference, UKMvb and UKMvd overestimated G by 19 and 15%, respectively.
(18) It was concluded that the aetiological role of hepatitis C virus on liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in the endemic area of hepatitis B virus is not so important as in Western countries, and transfusion might result in an overestimated pathogenic effect of hepatitis C virus in cirrhotic patients and patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
(19) Measurements of VE in patients being considered for a weaning trial can result in significant oxygen desaturation if obtained during room air breathing, and the values obtained can significantly overestimate the patient's true ventilatory requirements, since most patients receive supplemental oxygen during a weaning trial.
(20) Overestimation was higher (up to 8 points) when the losses were high, as for oats, or when degradability was low, as for fish meal.
Overrate
Definition:
(v. t.) To rate or value too highly.
(n.) An excessive rate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most widely used source of drug information for doctors is the industry-sponsored Physicians' Desk Reference, which overrates the therapeutic value of Valium and Librium as compared to disinterested medical sources.
(2) Focal infection, although in general overrated in its importance for the general organism, may pose some problems before heart surgery and antibiotic therapy previously may seem necessary.
(3) The histological data are thus consistent with the electrophysiological data, which indicate that present standards for impulse noise exposure may overrate the hazard of low-frequency impulses relative to impulses in the midrange.
(4) Consistent with previous research, overrating children showed higher self-esteem on self- and teacher ratings than underraters.
(5) Robert Southey thought it entirely overrated and “by no means deserving of the encomiums which are passed upon it”.
(6) While levels of inhalant use are comparatively high, the tendency to overrate this use and to label all Indian youth as inhalant abusers must be avoided.
(7) The ability of a manager to be the driving force of a team is overrated, even when you associate historic teams (think the 1950s Yankees) with great managers (think Casey Stengel).
(8) The results correlated with the chick-growth assays (r 0.99 for DBL, P less than 0.001; 0.85 for Tetrahymena, P less than 0.01) but both methods overrated the poorer-quality samples.
(9) The danger of overrating the therapeutic potential of antibiotics is emphasized, and despite major advances in chemotherapy the discrimination between pathologies preferably treated surgically or conservatively has by no means changes.
(10) For the others, it’s about understanding that credibility and taste can be overrated concepts when genuine belly laughs are on offer.
(11) The average duration of time spent in a standing position was considerably underrated by the workers, while the duration of sitting was strongly overrated when compared with the ratings obtained with the observational method.
(12) (Fry, incidentally, contends that his influence through Twitter is vastly overrated, because his followers – doubtless soon to number a round a million – have independent minds of their own.
(13) Therefore Meryl Streep is “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood”, and “Crooked Hillary’s brainpower is highly over-rated”, and Republican Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is “overrated”, and NBC anchor Megyn Kelly is “highly overrated”.
(14) 8.46pm GMT 39 mins I know goals are overrated but ... yeah, this game could do with one.
(15) However, black Caribbean girls tended to be underrated in both reading and maths, while teachers were prone to underrate Pakistani girls in reading and overrate Bangladeshi boys in maths.
(16) The need for vancomycin as therapy for extensive soft tissue infections with MRSA may be overrated and probably contributes to the development of increasing antibiotic resistance.
(17) Donald Trump has responded on Twitter to Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech, calling her an “overrated actress” and a “Hillary flunky”.
(18) All we now know about the cold war shows that western (and, of course, Soviet) intelligence services persistently overrated their enemies' capabilities, and sometimes also their intentions.
(19) Discrepancies were found between the expected utilization and actual utilization, and a tendency was noted to overrate self-reported utilization in relation to actual utilization.
(20) It is the same, incidentally, whenever the planning minister, Nick Boles, says fields are overrated and the green belt should be built on.