Setting qualification for the Beijing Olympics as a modest first goal, Lang refrained from over-estimating the ability of the US team.

Villager after villager said their compensation was skimmed by cadres, usually by undervaluing the farmers' plots of land and over-estimating their own holdings.

The important finding here was that the students consistently underestimated their peers’ experience of negative events whilst slightly over-estimating their peers' experience of positive situations.