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Conservative means "not extreme"

E.g. conservative estimates

[-] a_statistician@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Words can have multiple meanings - it might be best to find one that doesn't have the same baggage that conservative has, such as "risk-averse"

[-] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not extreme is rather moderate. Conservative estimate means there's a tendency to not change what was estimated in the past. Moderate would mean that a small change would be accepted.

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