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		TeMPOraL on April 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Death by PowerPoint: The slide that killed seven p... A mathematical model (here, the crater equations) predicts something. If the prediction turned to be larger than reality, you could say that the model overpredicted.

stormking on April 16, 2019 [–]

What you should say is that the model is wrong.

TeMPOraL on April 16, 2019 | [–]

That too. "Overpredicted" is a particular way in which this model turned out to be wrong for the problem it was applied to.

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