The phrase "artificial threshold of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing limits or boundaries that are not naturally occurring, often in scientific, technical, or philosophical discussions.
Example: "The researchers established an artificial threshold of 50 decibels to determine the impact of noise on concentration levels."
Alternatives: "man-made limit of" or "constructed boundary of".
I am not saying that the two points are directly comparable, and that the artificial threshold of This Particular Round Number is something that matters.
While inventory data detect very high volumes, the equivalent numbers in the management plan never go beyond an artificial threshold of 450 m3∙ha−1, irrespective of the stand age.
We detected epidemic malaria risk areas by an artificial threshold of cv PR<15) ≥ 60%, ensuring that PR<15 varies substantially from year to year.
Therefore, we set an artificial threshold of five live born of any village; villages bigger than this were included in the NTD prevalence rate calculation, then the values were used as sample in the subsequent statistical inference.
In addition, it should be kept in mind that the cut-off level of > 6 hours is an artificial threshold and small shifts of minutes per day for people close to the cut-off might result in large differences.
Using data from as few as 10 people the artificial threshold approached the known actual threshold of poor performance.
Tillis has previously said he believes a federal minimum wage is an "artificial threshold" and that raising it is a "dangerous" idea.
To avoid the imposition of artificial thresholds, we have applied a generalization of the concept of gene set analysis (GSA), previously proposed in the context of transcriptomics [ 13] and further generalized to other genomic domains such as evolution [ 14], QTL analysis [ 15] and genotyping [ 16].
However, the usage of artificial thresholds results in the loss of information.
"When we create artificial thresholds then you run into a big problem".
Using artificial thresholds Wittmann et al. [ 10] constructed the Boolean model shown in Figure 1B.
