Sentence examples for rather than underestimated from inspiring English sources

Considering the kind of bias in the studies, we conclude that sensitivity and specificity of symptoms are more likely to be overestimated, rather than underestimated.

Given the birth rate in Lao PDR has been decreasing in the past few years it seems likely that the denominators were over rather than underestimated.

If anything, it is more likely that blood loss would be overestimated rather than underestimated in women who used LMWH than in women without LMWH.

It is difficult to be sure what effect this would have on the results but it is most likely that the frequency of reporting advice on nutrition and lifestyle is overestimated rather than underestimated in this survey.

Likewise, we would expect additional long term variability to have resulted from participants in this cohort discontinuing double blind treatment, which would also imply that we have overestimated rather than underestimated the effectiveness of monitoring.

The effect of an association tends to be over – rather than underestimated by the first group that reports it (Hirschhorn et al, 2002), and a weak effect may not be detectable in a small under-powered sample.

He says "we want to overestimate rather than underestimate the costs".

And it relied on people accurately reporting how much exercise they did - something people tend to overestimate rather than underestimate.

28 Again, this would have caused us to overestimate the level of quality received rather than underestimate it, although it is also possible that the self reports underestimated quality.

In contrast, the correlation between ExpLevmRNA and dN (or dN/ dS) was stronger than that of CDS Length and dN (or dN/ dS) in the groups of orthologs prone to have alignment errors (table 3), suggesting alignment issues inflate rather than underestimate the relative importance of mRNA expression on protein evolutionary rate in our analysis.

Always add some wiggle room, overestimating rather than underestimating.