Because behavior is determined by perceived rather than actual risk, underestimation of injury risk and concomitant overestimation of ability to negotiate risk may lead to an increased frequency of injury.
Thus, incorrect estimation (overestimation) of ability to step over an obstacle could result in severe accident such as falls in older adults.
A historic prospective design may involve certain pitfalls such as memory bias or an overestimation of informants' abilities to reflect on the impact of past incidents.
The DAFS measures self-care competencies and is a direct-observation measure designed to overcome any overestimation of functional abilities and inaccurate recall.
This has recently been supported by Butler et al. [ 19], who have also demonstrated evidence for overestimation of reaching ability in older adults, although the overestimation of reaching ability was not significantly associated with the occurrence of falls within the year before and after the study.
Gove's downfall came from opportunism, disloyalty, and an overestimation of his ability to outmanoeuvre Johnson.
For the most part this failure should be blamed on Republicans, but it has also become clear that one of Obama's crucial flaws is his overestimation of his ability to bring people together.
FT Comment co-written w/Nassim Taleb arguing that our challenges discovering new medicines reflect both pharma management's overestimation of their ability to domesticate uncertainty and medical researchers' underestimation of the complexity of biology and disease.
Since unequal group sizes will lead to an overestimation of the ability of the DFA model to predict which lakes belong in which group (because lakes from the largest group are likely to be classified into the largest group by chance alone), Cohen's kappa statistic (K) [24], [25], [26] was used to evaluate how well the DFA model performed in predicting group membership.
In the past, this may have led to an overestimation of the ability of posaconazole to cure chronic infections.
Previous findings [ 34] have suggested that lower working memory might be associated with significant overestimation of reaching ability.
