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Record 1 2024-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
CONT

Optimism bias describes people's tendency to overestimate their likelihood of experiencing positive events and underestimate their likelihood of experiencing negative events in the future.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

[...] les estimations cognitives du danger par les adolescents sont très souvent proches des risques réels [...] les relations causales sont plutôt dues à deux caractéristiques de la susceptibilité comportementale : d'une part, ils sont plus sujets au biais d'optimisme, c'est-à-dire au fait de penser qu'ils ont plus de chances qu'autrui d'échapper aux conséquences négatives des activités à risques [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

The normalcy bias, or normality bias, is a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster and its possible effects.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
  • Comportement humain
CONT

Le biais de normalité est un réflexe qui [...] pousse [une personne] à croire que [sa] vie se déroulera comme elle s'est toujours déroulée, et, ainsi, à ignorer la possibilité qu'une catastrophe ou un événement non prévu vienne tout chambouler.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología cognitiva
  • Comportamiento humano
CONT

El sesgo de la normalidad es un sesgo cognitivo que hace que creamos, irracionalmente, que nunca nos ocurrirá nada malo porque nunca nos ha ocurrido.

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Record 3 2022-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
CONT

Amara's law states that "we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. "

Key term(s)
  • Amara law

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
CONT

[...] la loi d'Amara [...] énonce que, si on surestime généralement l'effet des technologies à court terme, on le sous-estime plutôt à long terme.

Spanish

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Record 4 2020-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
DEF

[A] cognitive bias in which people mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.

CONT

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a psychological phenomenon where people of all competency levels tend to misjudge their own levels of competency. The unskilled ones tend to overestimate their competence, while those extremely skilled ones tend to underestimate their abilities.

CONT

Both the overconfidence effect and ability to self-assess are related to the Dunning-Kruger effect.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

L'incapacité à s'autoévaluer [...] est l'essence même de l'effet Dunning-Kruger : la relation entre la cognition et la métacognition, rend excessivement difficile l'évaluation d'une capacité chez soi-même ou les autres quand celle-ci nous fait défaut.

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

The A[ star]: algorithm is a best-first search method. It means that the algorithm simultaneously contains several paths which may all be candidates for the shortest path. At any time, it selects the most promising node(best-first) at a time for expansion, and incorporates the successor nodes into the search graph. The criterion for evaluation is the length of the path from start to the node plus the estimate of the remaining distance(cost). The theory says that if the remaining estimate is an underestimate, the first solution will be optimal.

OBS

A[star] search algorithm; A[star] algorithm: The word "star" and the square brackets that surround it replace the symbol representing a star, also known as an "asterisk," because it cannot be reproduced due to technical constraints.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques informatiques
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

L'algorithme A[étoile] est un algorithme de recherche [du] meilleur chemin de type meilleur d'abord. L'idée est de parcourir le graphe G depuis le sommet source jusqu'au sommet cible en se déplaçant dans les «meilleurs» sommets, [c'est-à-dire] ceux ayant le plus petit coût global : coût du chemin depuis la source + coût estimé jusqu'à la cible.

OBS

algorithme de recherche A[étoile]; algorithme A[étoile] : Le mot «étoile» et les crochets qui l'entourent remplacent le symbole représentant une étoile, aussi appelé «astérisque», parce qu'il est impossible de le reproduire en raison de contraintes techniques.

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 7 2006-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
CONT

Although most people know what they will be bringing home each month, most underestimate their expenses.... Will you be able to handle this additional credit obligation?

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
CONT

Bien que la plupart des gens savent exactement le montant net de leur revenu mensuel, ils sous-estiment leurs dépenses. [...] Serez-vous en mesure de remplir des obligations de crédit additionnelles?

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Préstamos
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Record 8 2004-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
DEF

Estimer au-dessous de sa valeur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Finanzas
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Record 9 2003-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Examinations and Competitions (Education)
CONT

Some teachers may feel that the abilities of some of their students cannot possibly be underestimated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Docimologie
CONT

La plupart des candidats sont sous-estimés par rapport à leurs possibilités réelles et [...] dans une mesure inégale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vocabulario general
  • Exámenes y oposiciones (Educación)
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Record 10 1996-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Group Dynamics
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

Refers to treatment outcome analyses in which all individuals(dropouts and completers) are included. Data from dropouts are collected at the point at which they leave the study. Because this approach assumes that drop outs would not have continued to improve if they had remained in treatment, end-point analyses may underestimate the efficacy of a particular treatment.

CONT

Serum samples from two patients with renal failure and one patient with rhabdomyolysis demonstrated strong non-linear behaviour with dilution, indicating the presence of an interfering factor. Kinetic measurement compared favourably with end-point analysis with respect to sensitivity and total analysis time ... 14 patients completed the entire study, but sufficient data on 15 patients could be used in the end-point analysis of efficacy ... End-point analysis between ... 2 drugs also showed an enhanced effect for zuclopenthizol over haloperidol ... To evaluate the consequences of clinical hypothermia associated with sepsis syndrome and septic shock. Design: Analysis of data from a multi-institutional, randomized placebo-controlled, prospective study with predetermined end-point analysis of development of shock, recovery from shock ... and death [Source: PASCAL database].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dynamique des groupes
  • Psychologie clinique

Spanish

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Record 11 1994-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
CONT

the governments generally underestimate the sophistication of the public.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

les administrations publiques ont tendance à penser que le public ne sait pas faire la part des choses.

Spanish

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Record 12 1992-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrochemistry
DEF

In design and analysis, a model that departs from accuracy in such a way. That it reduces the chances of a false positive assessment of the feasibility of the system in question. It may overestimate problems and underestimate capabilities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrochimie

Spanish

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Record 13 1985-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Pollution
CONT

Comparisons with Data: Preliminary results indicate some overprediction of sulfur dioxide concentrations and some underprediction of wet deposition, but generally the overall concentration pattern and episode occurrences agree quite well with measurements (correlations between 0.4 and 0.9). Figures A5-15 through A5-18 compare daily average measured and computed concentrations and ratios of computed to measured monthly concentrations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'air
DEF

Différence négative entre les valeurs calculées par un modèle mathématique et les valeurs réelles mesurées sur le terrain.

CONT

Dans le cas des dépôts humides du sud de la Norvège, dus aux émissions du Royaume-Uni, la sous-estimation des précipitations au-dessus de la Mer du Nord a conduit à une surestimation systématique des dépôts d'environ 20%. Les figures 12 et 13 montrent le dépôt total (sec et humide) estimé par les deux modèles.

OBS

Il n'est pas nécessaire, pour avoir recours à la notion de "sous-estimation", que le modèle soit informatique.

Spanish

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