overestimate

People in our technical circles overestimate the importance of this stuff by some fairly crazy amounts.

Or maybe most power costs are actually carried in low-cost areas rather than North America and Europe, so my $0.05/kWh is an overestimate?

Suffice it to say that most drinkers overestimate how much 'most people' drink.

The problem I see sharing salaries is that people tend to overestimate how good they are.

I sometimes feel, we tend to overestimate our abilities in understanding history and predicting future.

If you look into this you'll find people quite consistently overestimate their performance at multitasking and in fact do much more poorly at both tasks.

Methinks you overestimate the ability of people to draw proportionally.

Also, I think that people overestimate the influence of Adblock, even among Firefox users.

Basically don't overestimate how much the 'adults' understand.

> The problem I see sharing salaries is that people tend to overestimate how good they are.

I think you, like Aristotle, wildly overestimate conscious awareness.

I have talked to a number of people in the University of Washington's graduate program for statistics (typically rated #1/#2 in the world) and the consensus is that people almost always overestimate how well they understand statistics.

If students underestimate the risk of all points getting lost, they might in turn overestimate the "risk" of getting less than others if they play it safe.

They overestimate "average" CPM by about 100x.

Looks to me like they wrote an entire, serious article just so they could work in the sentence "I wouldn’t overestimate the effect of cleavage, but it’s there." Which may also explain why the thermostat will end up higher...

“Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.” Paul Saffo “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” Roy Amara I looks like they have mastered funding the transition to the next generation--yet to be profitable according to the NYT article--by preserving the DVD business as a cash cow.