overestimation

Is it just an understandable overestimation of the acceleration due to the direct experience of it?

Maybe not to the degree that the stereotypical C/++ would believe, but still an overestimation.

It was never a technical failure, just overestimation of potential market size (same will happen to SpaceX reusability plans i believe).

Ideas like this seem to me to be often based on a vast overestimation of how likely a drug candidate is to work.

I used to use this phrase too, but now I think there is a lot of overestimation in such understatements.

Although that explanation makes intuitive sense, it seems to be based on a massive overestimation of the amount of H2O that currently exists on Earth.

But then you have this real image he desperately tries to hide: the extravagance, the arrogance and overestimation of his own abilities to change things.

Many founders tend towards underestimation of problems and overestimation of their own abilities, and they may interpret seed money as an opportunity to replace you.

I think there is an overestimation of the value added from the great data-grab we have seen in the last 5-10 years.

A slight overestimation of his importance to the Twitter ecosystem.

Of course, the overestimation amount depends on the true rate, which we don't know.

Is this correct, or is 5 kW an overestimation?

The article doesn't claim any sources for the "overestimation" either -- or attempts to give any more accurate number.

) FT's Giles then used the following data to rebuke Piketty's "overestimation" of the top 1% & 10% wealth share, as noted in Giles' Excel sheet (not in the text): "Data comes from Inland Revenue tables.

Overestimation, underestimation, false expectations, misunderstandings,...