misleading information

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meaningsofmisleadingandinformation

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misleading
adjective
uk
/ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ/us
/ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ/
causing someone to believe something that is ...
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information
noun[U]
uk
/ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
facts about a situation, person, ...
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That is, maternal information may be designed to inform maternally related kin or suppressmisleadinginformationprovided by paternal genes.
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For example, they may simply parrot an interviewer's words that containmisleadinginformationand this might become incorporated into memory.
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Measuring and modelling patient flows the average stay of groups of patients givesmisleadinginformation.
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The homogenization temperatures determined from such two-phase inclusions would yieldmisleadinginformation, but the salinity measurements from their cooling behaviour are unaffected.
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Without such an analysis, results derived using assumptions violated because of rounding errors are numerically useless, since they can givemisleadinginformation.
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In particular, the matrix eigenvalues may in the nonnormal case givemisleadinginformationabout the convergence behaviour.
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This absence provides policy-makers with incomprehensive or evenmisleadinginformationto guide allocation decisions in health.
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This places a premium on the reliability of information, and maternal genes may benefit from suppressingmisleadinginformationtransmitted between sibs.
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The bilingual advantage, therefore, is in the ability to control attention when there ismisleadinginformation.
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But the tendency to equate propaganda withmisleadinginformationhas also been noticeable in more serious academic studies.
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Since intervals between 'dates' or 'visits' can last from a few days to more than one week, highlymisleadinginformationhas been transmitted.
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This is an especially thorny issue in the experimental literature examining children's resistance tomisleadinginformation(see below).
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For family studies the lower estimates of lifetime prevalence in relatives may provide encouraging butmisleadinginformationfor clinicians and patients.
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There are many situations in which this index providesmisleadinginformationconcerning the state of the myocardium, justifying the use of loadindependent indices of contractility.
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Bias from those imparting information cannot be excluded, and patient choices could be made on the basis of inaccurate ormisleadinginformation.
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The tasks in the former group includemisleadinginformation, making them high in their demand for control of attention.
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After this we discuss how various forms of psychopathology may affect children's memory and resistance tomisleadinginformation.
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It would be wrong to publishmisleadinginformation.
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