But these data do also suggest that national results might over-estimate the rate of progress.
They constantly over-estimate their abilities and under-estimate the risks and threats around them.
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Thus, he says, investors tend to under-estimate the potential for diversification strategies when the economic going is tough, and to over-estimate it when things are booming.
It is hard to over-estimate the gravity of Japan's situation.
Sir Alan says that many schools under or over-estimate the number of pupils with special needs, and that this leads to an incorrect level of provision for these pupils.
One is to over-estimate Britain's part in world affairs.
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As a study by UCLA found in 2007, the human brain is wired to over-estimate the size of risks, underestimate your ability to handle them and downplay the costs of not taking them.
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Using the latest brain imaging technologies, researchers have been able to prove that we human beings are neurologically wired to over-estimate the size of risks, under-estimate our ability to handle them, and downplay the costs of inaction.
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Reitzes now expects PC units to grow 16% year-over-year in 2010 (down from an earlier estimate of 19%) and to increase 10% year-over-year in 2011 (down from an earlier estimate of 11%).
Worst of all, that estimate is wildly over-optimistic because it ignores the giant, enormous, egregious tax shelters that would allow all moderately clever millionaires to slash their tax liabilities.
Shares trade for 19 times my 45-cent estimate for earnings over the next 12 months.
The current estimate suggests year-over-year growth of 23.6%.
The current estimate implies year-over-year growth of 83.1%.
The current estimate portrays year-over-year growth of 11.2%.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2012 reflects year-over-year growth of about 25%, while the expected growth rate for 2013 is 30%.
On November 13, Giant Interactive reported third-quarter earnings of 20 cents per share, which was flat on a year-over-year basis but better than the Zacks Consensus Estimate.
Analysts estimate that over 4 billion hours of user-generated content is watched each month on YouTube alone.
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The estimate for 2013 represents a year-over-year increase of approximately 59.42%.
The parent of KFC and Pizza Hut saw same store sales fall 20% in the two-month quarter, an improvement over their 25% estimate, fueling a rally that saw shares rise nearly 7% by 4:44 PM in New York.
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But he said they were consistent with the models developed to estimate climate change from the gases over a 125-year period.
"We estimate there was over 200 shots fired in a five- to 10-minute period, " Deveau said.
Of the 234 companies 70% have reported EPS above their mean estimate, which is in-line with the 69% over the past four quarters.
Using data provided by Lehman Brothers, I was able to estimate the fund's maximum cumulative loss over the past 10-and-a-half years (the maximum period for which data is available).
We estimate the cost to be approximately a trillion dollars over the past twenty-five years.
Earnings increased 17.4% year-over-year to 27 cents per share, and was in line with the Zacks estimate.
More importantly the positive reception of the phone gives us greater confidence that Apple can not only meet our 6-10 million iPhone 5 unit estimate for the rest of September, but also hit our 49 million unit estimate for the December quarter, which assumes 32% year-over-year growth.
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The NICEI results covering the period July - September 2012 estimate that NI economic activity increased by 0.7% over the quarter to 96.5% in Q3 2012 - but is still close to the minimum level reached in Q2 2012.
We estimate that over 70 of the buildings on the register are capable of beneficial re-use.
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