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The culprit in the misestimation was the widely castigated BD (birth/death) adjustment which projects the net jobs gained or lost due to the closing of old businesses and the opening of new ones based on the historical records of the past few years.

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

It is almost never caused by misestimation of the cost of the planned, known work, but rather surprises that result in a significant amount of unplanned, unexpected work that goes beyond the allocated cost reserves.

MSL Delay: Add 2 Years and $400 Million (and counting) - NASA Watch 2008

A neutral fiscal policy would undo the disequilibrating effects of such misestimation: it would gear people's expectations of over-life tax burdens to what will be required to pay for public programs; thus it would tend to tax-finance public outlays other than for projects that will charge user fees.

Edmund S. Phelps - Autobiography 2007

The audience comes to see that Lisa has a distorted view of the events she narrates, most clearly in her misestimation of the character of Brand.

Philosophy of Film Wartenberg, Thomas 2008