Sentence examples for mistaken estimates from inspiring English sources

They believe those agencies want to blame him for mistaken estimates and incorrect information about Iraq before the war, like whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

The C.I.A.'s Tenet sat behind him, endorsing Powell's charges of the nexus by his presence, knowing that an angry minority of his analysts, to justify years of mistaken estimates, are still telling media outlets that the boss is cooking the books.

The interviews contain few major revelations, but they underscore once again both Mr. Hussein's striking miscalculation of the risks he faced and the United States' mistaken estimate of the threat Iraq really posed.

It seems only logical that the more you know, the safer you are and the greater the chance that you will get things right.Yet Israel's most costly and fateful failure was its mistaken estimate of Egyptian and Syrian intentions, on the eve of the Yom Kippur war in 1973, when the two armies unexpectedly attacked Israel in a bid to regain the territories lost in the 1967 war.

At this point, although I didn't have a name for it, the endowment effect would begin to work its magic, leading me to generate all sorts of reasons why I should keep an item based on a mistaken estimate of how valuable I found it.

The ships left Kiel on 25 March, but due to a mistaken estimate for the amount of coal that would be necessary to cross the Atlantic, Seeadler ran out of fuel while en route.

Prevalence should not be estimated from a non-probability sample, however, so the numbers provided by Dvorak et al. should not be mistaken for estimates of population prevalence.

We are now in a new year and since the worst has not happened, I wonder whether it means our commentators were immensely persuasive, or simply that they were somewhat mistaken in their estimate of how India would react.

Although this metric should not be mistaken for an estimate of actual reservoir competence (i.e., the proportion of ticks that become infected from feeding on infective hosts), it may be more informative because it includes the outcome of several ecologic processes that ultimately determine human risk of exposure to tick-borne pathogens.

Clinicians make diagnostic mistakes, with estimates suggesting approximately 30% false-negative and false-positive rates in radiology (Krupinski, 2010).

When observations of mortality are based on factors such as the absence of animal movement, live individuals can be mistaken for dead, resulting in biased estimates of survival.