Teachers and peers were underestimating her she was teased at school.

There can be no underestimating the scale of the human devastation wrought by Asia s horrific tsunamis. Family members have been lost, homes destroyed, and livelihoods ruined.

So it really suggests, when you're doing this based on this study and others we've done that the brain is canceling the sensory consequences and underestimating the force it's producing.

Second, the troika based its programs on overly optimistic assumptions. It misjudged the consequences of fiscal consolidation and credit constraints, underestimating the contraction of employment and overestimating exports and privatization receipts.

Turkey is more dynamic and energetic than Russia, and its economy certainly is faring much better, but both regimes are overestimating the strength of their position and underestimating the cost of their autocratic turn.

In particular, the Panel considers that Kuwait overstates the actual number of cases of PTSD attributable to Iraq's invasion and occupation by underestimating the background prevalence rate of PTSD in Kuwait prior to the invasion and occupation.

And yet, even with these new institutional backstops, the global financial risks of Greece s instability remain profound. It is not hard to imagine Greece s brash new leaders underestimating Germany s intransigence on debt relief or renegotiation of structural reform packages.

Central bankers, I believe, are underestimating the impact of this structural shift. In the more tech oriented economies, like the US, the United Kingdom, and the Nordic countries, there is a risk that traditional macroeconomic models will overestimate the cost pressure from labor.

As the world slowly moves from elation to sober realism, it is important to maintain a balanced view of what s happening and avoid the dual risks of underestimating the truly revolutionary nature of what took place and overestimating the ability of Obama s team to find miracle solutions.

Nevertheless, drawing Libya deeper into international discourse, despite the possibility of roadblocks along the way, is a strategic decision that, now that it has been taken, the West must pursue with patience, perseverance, and constant nurturing. In that process, underestimating Libyan diplomacy, shrewdness and negotiating skills is the folly of the ignorant.

What all of this means is that by measuring the effectiveness of vaccines merely in terms of lives saved, we could be seriously underestimating the full extent of the benefits that they offer. As things stand, in terms of the cost effectiveness of health interventions, vaccines are already considered one of public policy s best buys.

Surveys among US college students estimated that 20 fit criteria for depression and anxiety in 2010, and that nearly 25 fit these criteria in 2012. Other studies have consistently shown rising rates of prevalence with each successive generation, and it is argued that, if older statistics were faulty, they erred on the side of underestimating the spread of mental illness.

But the real danger which even Hollande s sternest critics may be underestimating is not so much his individual policy failings (serious though they may be) as his approach to the twin challenges posed by France s economic imbalances and the eurozone crisis. On each front separately, he might manage to muddle through together, they look likely to cement France s loss of competitiveness.