A few hours later, it looks as if the exit poll may have even underestimated the number of seats the Tories will win and overestimated Labour's share.
The report says the long view now suggests previous work has overestimated the costs associated with reducing pollution.
Her influence spanning 30 years of tireless campaigning cannot be overestimated.
He thinks futures markets have overestimated the effect that Asia's troubles will have on demand and underestimated the strength of the American economy.
The problem, Mr Hansen continued, was that the government had drastically overestimated the benefits, and underestimated the rush of migration that would follow.
Fresh evidence also emerged this week that the regime in Khartoum is supplying rebels in South Sudan's Jonglei state.The resumption of oil production will soothe international concerns, but the UN and Western governments have routinely overestimated the industry's ability to bind north and south.
Yet recent glitches also suggest that politicians overestimated political support for big new deals.The threat of failure in the Doha round is most serious.
Or perhaps the researchers (and the participants) greatly overestimated the additional marginal value of each chocolate.
A recent paper by Ka-Kit Tung and Jiansong Zhou in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences links temperature changes from 1750 to natural changes (such as sea temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean) and suggests that "the anthropogenic global-warming trends might have been overestimated by a factor of two in the second half of the 20th century".
That is on top of today's average of 16m births a year.All the same, the government and investors have overestimated the pent-up demand for babies.
Perhaps Greece could scare Germany into softer terms just by threatening such a sale.Many a private-equity firm has overestimated the profits to be wrung from buy-outs, and the sovereignty market may be no exception.
