The phrase "a false indication of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing something that misrepresents or inaccurately suggests a particular situation or outcome.
Example: "The results of the survey provided a false indication of the public's true opinion on the matter."
Alternatives: "a misleading sign of" or "an inaccurate representation of".
It should be noted that it may be hard to detect enhanced plasticity in selected phenotypes because of the 'Fry conjecture': selected genotypes are better at handling stress, thus the "internal" stress indicators may not be sufficient to induce expression changes, thus creating a false indication of canalization.
Using an outcome metric like an executive's earnings performance, while ignoring his role as a boss and his impact on the morale, loyalty, focus, and stress levels of his direct reports, may result in a false indication of who's really the best boss.
Surface noise can affect the image and give a false indication of where the true surface lies.
It would eventually give a false indication of indomethacin effect and, in the long term, such high dosages may even endanger the patient's life.
He goes on to discuss the handwritten text as a false indication of an authentic voice.
And her argument is, I suppose, as it is laid out in the complaint, they put their own watermark on it, they put it on their own websites, and said it was available through Getty Images, and all of that is somehow a false indication of copyright ownership.
Those tests will provide a false indication, but they will become a part of my daughter's academic record.
Experiments showed that once a false indication occurs, it may have drastic effects on system safety.
Limitations of MC exams include the work-intensive construction of high-quality question banks (Simkin and Kuechler, 2005), the difficulty of assessing critical-thinking skills (Martinez, 1999), and possibly false indication of student knowledge and understanding (Dufresne et al., 2002).
It could also be that the bombmaker wanted the bombs to be found: If the motive really was to implicate an innocent party by making a device with false indications of the sender's ideological bent, it would make sense to leave those intact rather than destroy them in an explosion.
Adsorbed surfactants on a loamy sand with positively charged oxides showed false indications of PCE saturation based on partitioning tracers in the absence of PCE.
