noun
- Plural of overprediction; instances in which something is predicted or forecast to be greater in amount, extent, or likelihood than it actually turns out to be.
Usage: Commonly used in scientific, statistical, and forecasting contexts.; Often appears in academic and technical writing.
Examples
- The climate model's overpredictions of temperature rise were corrected in the latest version.
- Analysts acknowledged the overpredictions in their initial sales projections.
- Several overpredictions in the economic forecast led to policy adjustments.
- The study examined common overpredictions made by weather forecasters.
- Overpredictions of pandemic severity sometimes caused unnecessary public alarm.
- Machine learning models are prone to overpredictions when trained on biased data.