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In short, now that he knows (or, anyway, prefers to believe) that the speedometer has been understating his speed, and that the shimmy therefore doesn't start until he is really going 55, he thinks that he can drive 55 as measured using that same speedometer . Uh-uh.
Suppose Shepard is right that we are understating productivity growth by, say, 1 percent.
Since the airing on Cuban television of an American documentary on the threat to the world of a wandering asteroid, Granma has been obsessed with the asteroid danger, which it accuses the United States of understating.
One special prosecutor is still deciding whether to prosecute Henry Cisneros, the former housing secretary, for understating payments to an ex-mistress.
In deciding what and how to trace, consider the relative risks to the engagement of overstating or understating the conclusions drawn from the data, for example: On the one hand, if you are particularly concerned that questionable cases might not have been entered into the computer system and that as a result, the degree of compliance may be overstated, you should consider tracing from source documents to the database.