When a villain does show up again, Bruce overestimates himself and underestimates the enemy.
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And in politics, he who underestimates (his opponent) overestimates himself and thus makes an error in judgment.
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If a model overestimates the lift around an aircraft's wing, then the actual plane might not get off the ground.
"Washington often overestimates its leverage on Beijing, " says a Chinese political scientist.
He overestimates herbicide use on some genetically engineered, herbicide-tolerant crops in the United States while significantly underestimating herbicide use on conventional (non-genetically engineered) crops.
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Barclays Capital thinks the OBR overestimates spare capacity in the economy and that planned spending cuts will not be enough to eliminate the structural deficit.
"Overestimates of the number of species on Earth are self-defeating because they can make attempts to discover and conserve biodiversity appear to be hopeless, " said Dr Costello.
In a report for the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Andrew Lilico of Europe Economics argues that the housing crisis is a myth stemming from population overestimates in 2000.
Is a conservative estimate one that likely overestimates deaths?
But safety campaigns kicked off in 2001 sharply dropped the number of lightning deaths each year, so that 30-year average consistently overestimates fatalities because it includes data from before the recent decline, Roeder said.
While the public often overestimates the impact these pensions have on local financial strain while minimizing other factors that have a greater impact than realized the fact remains that, from a pure public relations perspective, the public employee unions are not popular entities these days.
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Second, the assumption of one additional percent of growth over a 15-year period possibly overestimates the effect in the early years, but underestimates to a far greater degree in later years when the economy is larger, the penetration is higher and the network effect is greater.
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