misleading conclusion

collocation in English

meaningsofmisleadingandconclusion

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misleading
adjective
uk
/ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ/us
/ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ/
causing someone to believe something that is ...
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conclusion
noun
uk
/kənˈkluː.ʒən/us
/kənˈkluː.ʒən/
the final part ...
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Clack is more explicit than most, however, in offering us a detailed account of how thismisleadingconclusionis arrived at.
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In other cases it was undoubtedly so, and if you take any particular item by itself you are sure to arrive at amisleadingconclusion.
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The inference from these claims to the either meaningless ormisleadingconclusionis implicitly premised on the verificationist theory of meaning.
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Failure to distinguish between aggressive and delinquent conduct problems could generate misleading conclusions about their respective developmental courses and limit the generalizability of results.
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These findings suggest that failure to distinguish between these patterns of problems in developmental research could generate misleading conclusions and limit the generalizability of results.
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Thus, trying to generalize from any particular study or group of studies may result in misleading conclusions.
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However, excluding such trials from systematic reviews could introduce bias and give rise to misleading conclusions.
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Indeed, as we have illustrated, designs that omit one or the other may prompt misleading conclusions.
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In such cases, scholars who assess the effectiveness of democratic processes by looking only at whether a statute attains its advertised policy goals are likely to draw misleading conclusions.
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I should much prefer not to give the information requested at this stage because misleading conclusions might be drawn.
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I am sure he will agree that it is most undesirable to have misleading conclusions drawn from them.
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One of the reports cautions that failure to compare like with like will inevitably end in misleading conclusions.
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However, any calculation of this sort over such a long period is subject to a wide margin of error, and is also open to misleading conclusions.
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A statistical analysis of misleading data produces misleading conclusions.
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The question is rather whether correct or misleading conclusions are drawn from the comparison.
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Use of approximate and asymptotic methods may lead to misleading conclusions or may fail to detect truly significant results from experiments.
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Evidence from these types of experiments can lead to overgeneralized and misleading conclusions, because the recognition process of complex, three-dimensional patterns could be very different from simple schematics.
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