The phrase "a misleading effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or influence of something that causes confusion or misinterpretation.
Example: "The advertisement had a misleading effect on consumers, leading them to believe the product was more effective than it actually is."
Alternatives: "a deceptive impact" or "a confusing influence".
Impossibly smooth was right: Olay admitted to retouching Twiggy's photos, and the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority banned the ads, ruling they might give consumers a "misleading impression of the effect the product could achieve".
The report was "published in good faith, based on information we believed to be credible that was provided to us by a former F.D.A. director that has ongoing communications with high agency officials," the report said, adding, "We regret any misleading effect this chain of events has had".
We use a simple graphical approach to show that ignoring the effects of alternative prey can give a misleading impression of the predator's effect on the prey of interest.
This calculation makes possible the measurement of a potential real significance of the effect of the intervention in each group, by describing the size of the observed effect, which is independent of a possible misleading effect as a function of the sample size (Lindenau & Guimarães, 2012).
It showed how the conclusions regarding "erythrocytic enucleation" in other models had a long-lasting misleading effect on studies of tumor vasculature morphogenesis.
To rule out the possibility that individual differences in sensitivity to caffeine between mouse mothers or pups didn't lead to any misleading effects, the work needs to be replicated several times in much larger groups, and in different breeds of mice, Silva says.
Not surprisingly, these data indicate that loci with unusually large FST values have a large and potentially misleading effect on the perceived genetic distance among populations.
