The phrase "a counterproductive effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an outcome that hinders progress or has the opposite effect of what was intended.
Example: "The new policy had a counterproductive effect, leading to decreased employee morale instead of the intended increase in productivity."
Alternatives: "an adverse effect" or "a detrimental impact".
And could it be that with a heavily indebted populace and a dysfunctional banking system still unable to lend effectively, that this round of quantitative easing is having a counterproductive effect?
But others argue that the rise of adblocking will instead have a counterproductive effect, driving publishers to platforms where adverts – and tracking code – cannot be blocked.
"Governor Romney's view is that the private sector can do the best job, that basic research funding is the appropriate role for government and that more aggressive subsidization and investment by the government can, in fact, have a counterproductive effect on innovation in the private sector," Mr. Cass said.
He sees that as a counterproductive effect of the "silence policy" about drug violence, adopted by current President Enrique Peña Nieto.
However, not all ARA metabolites have a counterproductive effect, with some of them being able to display a beneficial/detrimental role depending on the tissue they are targeting or just having a general positive effect.
Thus the LTD data corroborate the observation made by the LTP experiments in the following ways: First, a 2 h stay in the ED system provides a counterproductive effect on hippocampal synaptic plasticity in the CA1 region which is also reflected by the post LFS fEPSP slope responses in the slices.
"that widely accepted scientific data had "overestimated" global warming and that regulation enacted in response to that data could have "a very counterproductive effect".
"If we are pressured, we get stubborn and obviously it has a very counterproductive effect," Karsten Voigt of the German Foreign Ministry told NPR last year, as if explaining away some recalcitrance during toilet training.
"that widely accepted scientific data had "overestimated" global warming and that regulation enacted in response to that data could have "a very counterproductive effect". Among the scientists who testified before this Committee on the issue of climate change in the last Congress, Pat Michaels was the only one to dismiss the need to act on climate change". "No, the science is not settled.
A study conducted by several law professors concluded targeted drone strikes have produced a "damaging and counterproductive effect" on Pakistan, killing far more civilians than previously reported.
Such patients are commonly told to take potassium supplements, typically potassium chloride, although chloride has a counterproductive acidic effect.
