They tend to underemphasize the potential for violent upheaval. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As a former engineer in oil drilling services, I cannot underemphasize “stupid.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
It tends to underemphasize the power shifts that have occurred in the hemisphere, the variation in terms of institutional development, the opportunities that exist, or the role of the private sector in shaping agendas and relations. ❋ Christopher Sabatini (2010)
This is particularly important for many women, who tend to underemphasize their accomplishments. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I do think that Zark overemphasizes IQ, but not as much as my Progressive colleagues underemphasize it, to the point of self-satire. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It goes a crucial step further, and I wouldn't underemphasize the point that the idea that this is all about women's choice, that these women freely choose to dress that way, I think that's easy to exaggerate. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The bias leads diffusion researchers to ignore the study of ignorance about innovations, to underemphasize the rejection or discontinuance of innovations, to overlook re-invention, and to fail to study antidiffusion programs designed to prevent the diffusion of “bad” innovations like crack cocaine or cigarettes, for example. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (1995)
Managers and union leaders both generally overemphasize the importance of pay as a source of dissatisfaction of employees and underemphasize the importance of such concerns as security, job satisfaction, and opportunity Bass & Ryterband, 1979. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)
Moreover, in an attempt to highlight the global dimensions of this struggle, Strachan devotes considerable attention to the conflict waged in Africa and western Asia, which in a short work serves to underemphasize the war on the Western Front — indisputably the crucial theater. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Thus, I tend to underemphasize the importance of psychotropics because so many people rely exclusively on them. ❋ Cubes (2004)
Many scientists overemphasize the causal importance of mutation and underemphasize the importance of sexual reproduction. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The bias leads diffusion researchers to ignore the study of ignorance about innovations, to underemphasize the rejection or discontinuance of innovations, to overlook re-invention (although much research on the subject has been done in recent years), and to fail to study antidiffusion programs designed to prevent the spread of “bad” innovations (crack cocaine or cigarettes, for example). ❋ Everett M. Rogers (2003)
American voters probably underappreciate and underemphasize the importance of parties in their votes for legislators-- unlike in Westminster systems, in which almost all votes are cast on the basis of which party the voter wants to control the legislature as a whole, almost none on the basis of the individual candidate's views. ❋ Jacob T. Levy (2002)
Starbuck (1985:370-371) raised another possibility here: firms that do well naturally emphasize their planning activities (since they made or exceeded their targets) while those that do poorly become unsure of them and so underemphasize them. ❋ HENRY MINTZBERG (1994)
