underconfident

What we don't talk about as much is the high cost of being underconfident.

"At least I don't have a problem to be underconfident," Williams said.

How does an underconfident dog learn to negotiate stairs?

"I imagine people will picture me as someone on the fringe, as some weird mother with weird, underconfident kids," she says.

I often joke that you wouldn't want an overconfident brain surgeon, but you don't want an underconfident one either.

I don't like to be underconfident."

I am not sure what has happened to Bart, but he looks a different player from the slow underconfident shadow we saw at Palace and other places.

A study discloses a picture of an underconfident nation, mulling over why we have lost touch with friends, failed to save enough money and chosen the wrong career.

Men were more likely to be overconfident and women were more likely to be underconfident, even though there was no difference in their abilities.”

Although Quarry might have been gracious and intelligent (he wrote poetry) Quarry was also underconfident, said his sister Wilma.

As we advance toward the point in the season when we should feel like this is really a competition, too many finalists still seem underconfident and artistically stuck.

The actor, described as gentle and self-effacing by friends, once said: "My trouble is that I'm underconfident and I'm too tentative.

On the other hand, an uncalibrated person who is systematically underconfident may say they are 50% confident in a large number of questions where they actually get 70% of them correct.

Yet many more people would like to cycle than actually do. One reason for this is that they are underconfident on the road; or maybe they never learned to ride a bike as a child.

Some of the students who took part were chosen because they were underconfident at school or had special behavioural needs; others needed a chance to develop performing skills, or learn more about music technology.

And in the long term, it could imply that the forecasts are underconfident — that the confidence intervals we publish are too wide and reflect more uncertainty about the outcome than there really is.

It simply ensures that the factors included are at least calibrated estimates (not overconfident or underconfident) and that further reduction of uncertainty (by measurement efforts) is optimized and applied to the right factors.

While Marchant was an underconfident batsman when placed in an opening position, he thrived amongst his weaker batting team-mates, able to better scores further down the order than when he opened for the side.

"The prenup is just another way of young kids' pumping up their ego or being underconfident about what their real abilities are," said Avi Moskowitz, 36, chief executive of Virtual Communities, which builds online portals.

The result shows that subjects tend to be underconfident when it comes to questions designated by the experimenters to be easy, and overconfident when it comes to questions designated by the experimenters to be hard.

So far, however, the forecasts made by FiveThirtyEight and other polling aggregators have been fairly accurate, which suggests that the forecasts may be underconfident and may err on the side of overestimating the true degree of uncertainty.

The series, set in an ancient fantasy realm, follows reluctant hero Kröd Mändoon (Sean Maguire), a "thin-skinned and underconfident freedom fighter" in his struggle against the evil ruler, Chancellor Dongalor (Matt Lucas).

Adults also take into account calibration (i.e., the speaker's own estimation of their accuracy as demonstrated by confidence and accuracy) and change their assessments of credibility if the speaker is revealed to have inaccurate calibration (e.g. is over- or underconfident).

Also, reading Emerson fueled his interest in what Beran calls "the problem of the underconfident soul" - the conditions that cripple the growth of confidence, a prerequisite for success in an urban setting, and in a world increasingly ruled either by impersonal market forces or by faceless bureaucracies.