Sentence examples for overstated by a factor of from inspiring English sources

(He found, for example, that Tyrannosaurus's peak growth rate had been overstated by a factor of two).

It is more likely to be nearer 650,000 and just as likely to be above the mean as below it.So I think it matters whether the number is accurate, or overstated by a factor of 3-10X.

Most of these members are supposed to be in Africa, even though more than 20 of the Anglican churches around the world keep no centralised figures at all, and painstaking research by Daniel Muñoz in Madrid suggests that the official figures for church membership are overstated by a factor of eight.

However, the reliability of these estimates has been questioned by the organization GiveWell, which suggests they have been overstated by a factor of about 100 (GiveWell 2011).

The percentages for incidence in the whole cohort compared with those in the stable practices are also overstated by a factor of 10: the values should be 0.93% versus 0.78% for men and 1.83% versus 1.58% for women.

In the results section in the full (online) version of this article by Michael Moore and colleagues (BMJ 2009;339:b3999, doi: 10.1136/bmj.b3999), we overstated by a factor of 10 the percentages given for the incidence of new cases of depression in 1993: the values should be 1.58% for women and 0.78% for men.

They achieved this high estimate a) by assuming that IQ reductions occur at MeHg exposures near or even below the 5.8 μg/L reference dose (RfD), although there is no evidence for IQ reductions even at much higher exposures; and b) by overstating by nearly a factor of three the fraction of newborns with MeHg exceeding the RfD.

CBS executives said that figure overstated the matter by a factor of about four.

Even if the figure is overstated by a couple of percentage points, growth will still be strong compared with most of Asia.

In the 1960s, a team of statisticians led by Leonard Savage at the University of Michigan showed that the classical approach could overstate the significance of the finding by a factor of 10 or more.

This contrasts with popular perceptions held by Britons, who overstate the proportion of Muslims in the country by a factor of four, according to a recent survey by Ipsos Mori.