misoptimize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements.
Example Sentences
- "Is anything like this going on inside the program in question as ported to Pleiades? Unless a complete static analysis of the generated object code is done, or unless every input data set is run through a correct version of the program and the output compared with that of the misoptimized version, nobody knows."
- "Inattentive consumers are misoptimizing: they fail to recognize opportunities to save money by choosing products with lower ancillary costs."
- "This effect is related to the broader philosophies of libertarian paternalism (Sunstein and Thaler, 2003), which advocate policies that do not infringe on freedom of choice but could improve choices by the subset of people who misoptimize."
- "In addition, many individuals may not be misoptimizing, so taxing or subsidizing them may introduce new distortions."