This amounted to a 25 percent increase above the preceding year, but even the police say they believe these figures dramatically underestimate attacks on blacks and Asians.

But it is also true that in 1991, the intelligence community dramatically underestimated how dangerous Saddam was: Intelligence experts were shocked by how advanced Iraqi nuclear13 and biological programs were (and Saddam Hussein had already used chemical weapons).

Moreover, for complications or adverse events, the standard is to rely on self-report by providers, which dramatically underestimates the frequency of these events [ 26 ] .

A 2011 study found that US citizens across the political spectrum dramatically underestimate the current US wealth inequality and would prefer a far more egalitarian distribution of wealth.

Such a claim vastly overestimates my influence, dramatically underestimates the perseverance and energy of the press corps, and completely ignores his own contributions to the questions that have surfaced about him.

Calculating Fat Calories Helpful as these new labels are, listing a food's fat content by weight dramatically underestimates the percentage of dietary calories that come from fat.

The Soviets advance at great cost, having dramatically underestimated NATO defensive firepower.

"People dramatically underestimate their out-of-pocket expenses" in such circumstances, he said.

The Bush Administration, which at first dramatically underestimated the number of failing savings associations and their cost to taxpayers, later revised its figures and predicted that as many as 1,000 savings associations might fail.

Because of the average 10-year gap between infection and illness, citing only the number of current AIDS deaths dramatically underestimates the magnitude of this disease.