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confidence

[′kän·fə·dəns]
(statistics)
The degree of assurance that a specified failure rate is not exceeded.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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But there is daring and there is recklessness, sparked by that streak of overconfidence.
Four factors consistently predicted overconfidence.
Belmi and his colleagues conducted a series of four investigations looking at the connection between social class and overconfidence and how that might affect others' perceptions of a person's competence.
"Ang problema, kapag nananalo ang team namin, meron kaming tendencies na overconfidence e.
In my opinion, one of the most significant contributing factors to owner procrastination and outright avoidance for a transition strategy is overconfidence bias.
Razali had claimed that Pakatan Rakyat's overconfidence in Muar would be the coalition's downfall.
Contrary to past evidence, the author also finds that Poles are less susceptible to overconfidence bias than students in India possibly due to their more individualistic attitude.
Ranged against a team that has lost its first three games by an average of 19 points, Robinson remains cautious, repeatedly reminding his troops against overconfidence.
Self-serving bias is widely known to be the key factor contributing to the better-than-average effect (BTA) in psychology literature (Babcock & Loewenstein, 1997; Taylor & Brown, 1988) and overconfidence (Moosa & Ramiah, 2017).
"He also said that those who do not respect the parliament have no right to sit in it as well and that if the current political crisis worsens, holding of elections before time would not be completely unconstitutional.Responding to a question about the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan, Shah said that Khan, in his overconfidence is fast losing the popularity that he initially gained.
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