Definitions
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- verb make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
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Examples
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Mr. MARKS: By having so many foreclosures on the horizon, we're going to over-correct, and the market will go even lower than it would normally go, prices will just do a downward spiral, and we won't have a functioning market out there.
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Mr. MARKS: By having so many foreclosures on the horizon, we're going to over-correct, and the market will go even lower than it would normally go, prices will just do a downward spiral, and we won't have a functioning market out there.
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It just shows that Obama is being very careful now that we are on the edge of the abyss not to over-correct.
Who will restore George Bush's tattered reputation? Barack Obama! Ann Althouse 2009
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When us humans come out of a suboptimal experience, we tend to over-correct in the opposite direction in our next experience.
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It just shows that Obama is being very careful now that we are on the edge of the abyss not to over-correct.
Who will restore George Bush's tattered reputation? Barack Obama! Ann Althouse 2009
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The counter-phobic tend to over-correct by blurting.
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When us humans come out of a suboptimal experience, we tend to over-correct in the opposite direction in our next experience.
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To simply let the housing market rapidly correct itself (or more likely over-correct) would result in massive societal disruption, possible violence and unnecessary suffering.
Dylan Ratigan: Veterans: Lip Service, Bankers: Billions & America: Foreclosures - Here's The Fix 2009
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When us humans come out of a suboptimal experience, we tend to over-correct in the opposite direction in our next experience.
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And knowing how hugely markets over-correct, even that level may be high given the world's greatest ever economic crisis and an administration so far proposing tired old policies in new wrapping.
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