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Does feigning ignorance encourage actual ignorance — if nothing else as a way to avoid being "misleading" about what you do and don't know?
Does feigning ignorance encourage actual ignorance if nothing else as a way to avoid being "misleading" about what you do and don't know?
Of course, that's not really a fix at all for the actual signal, it's just a fix for being misleading about it in the first place.
It included taking away a feature some people loved, probably being misleading about it, getting a huge amount of backlash, halfway bringing the feature back, and getting railed by the press for it all — with bouts of downtime mixed in for good measure.
The Justice Department has denied being misleading about the Patriot Act.
The Justice Department denied being misleading about the Patriot Act, saying it has acknowledged that a secret, sensitive intelligence program is based on the law and that its statements about the matter have been accurate.
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"Looking at movements of the dollar against a single currency can be misleading about overall trends," said Ben S. Bernanke, a Fed governor, in a speech this week.
His position is stated even in the title: the film was once called "The Reporter," but Antonioni must have considered this to be misleading about who it was he meant to be the key figure, for he changed the title to "The Passenger".
But sometimes surveys can be misleading about hours worked, because people tend to report round numbers like "40 hours" or "35 hours" even when actual hours worked are not a round number (more than 40 percent of employed people in the monthly household survey reported that they worked 40 hours in the reference week, compared with a mere 0.4 percent who reported 39 hours of work).
And toting up aggregate revenue can be misleading about the level of business opportunity.
Nonetheless, the frequently exclusive focus on Ingarden's work in aesthetics is somewhat unfortunate and can be misleading about his overall philosophical focus and goals, for Ingarden produced an enormous body of work on a wide variety of topics.
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