The phrase "artificial difference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a distinction that is not natural or inherent, often created or imposed by external factors.
Example: "The study aimed to highlight the artificial difference between the two groups, which was largely a result of the experimental conditions."
Alternatives: "manufactured distinction" or "contrived difference".
Indeed, even if models are specified such that structural paths are constrained to be equal between groups, the comparison of standardized coefficients can yield artificial differences that are due to differing standard deviations between groups and not to true moderation.
Overall fall incidence of 'any fall' assessed retrospectively, but not recurrent fall rates, differed between the two studies, consistent with both the very different possibilities that true rates differed between the two populations and that they were artificial differences because of methodological differences between studies.
Consequently, care should be taken that no clinical relevance is attached to artificial differences due solely to repeated use of a method or to different users.
First, to ensure that the 450 BeadChip identifies genuine DNA methylation differences between MZ co-twins rather than artificial differences due to technical variation, we hybridized two technical replicates of six different samples on the bead chips.
Many young composers still play the same glass-bead game with the past, upholding artificial differences in musical language rather than questioning them.
The SFDRR treads carefully with regards to cross-sectoralism, sadly entrenching artificial differences and divisions in the process.
Second, cross-sectoral approaches, for which the SFDRR treads carefully, thereby unfortunately entrenching artificial differences and divisions, although appropriately offering plenty of support to other sectors from disaster risk reduction.
Because tribalism was presumably once conducive to survival, we have a natural instinct to be tribal, but at this point in our evolutionary history we should be mitigating the artificial differences between us rather than empowering them.
We controlled for artificial differences in functional coupling related to differential atrophy rates by calculating a custom brain or midspace.
This ensures that artificial differences arising from changes in degree distributions of essential proteins are not observed whilst simultaneously conserving the network structure.
