spurious result

collocation in English

meaningsofspuriousandresult

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spurious
adjective
uk
/ˈspjʊə.ri.əs/us
/ˈspjʊr.i.əs/
false and not what it appears to be, or (of reasons and judgments) based on something that has not been correctly understood and ...
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result
noun
uk
/rɪˈzʌlt/us
/rɪˈzʌlt/
something that happens or exists because of ...
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(Definition ofspuriousandresultfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Such compromise of the integrity of the double-blind in a clinical trial could lead to spurious results or an exaggeration of the treatment effect.
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Alternative enzyme inhibitors do not completely inhibit peptidases and may lead to spurious results.
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Both were antisense to help reduce any spurious results caused by mis-priming.
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Computing percentages over very small sample sizes might generate spurious results: a small difference in the number of tokens can significantly affect the proportional value.
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In addition, we selected a minimum cluster of voxels (size of brain activation) to exclude potentially spurious results.
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It is likely that residual oil upstream from the imaged volume was mobilized into the imaged volume causing these spurious results in the water-wet columns.
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Of course, artifacts of cell culturee.g., removal of neurons from the influence of gliacould create spurious results as well.
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When searching for a given phenomenon, often many spurious results are gleaned.
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However, the inaccuracy of the measurement and spurious results caused by electron impacts with the container led to misleading results.
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Orthomolecular practitioners will often use dubious diagnostic methods to define what substances are correct; one example is hair analysis, which produces spurious results when used in this fashion.
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