"category confusion" is a correct term and is commonly used in written English.
It refers to a situation where someone is uncertain or confused about which category something belongs to. Example: The debate about whether a platypus should be classified as a mammal or a bird has caused much category confusion among scientists.
Neither a monster nor a victim, he occasions category confusion.
Historical perspective also helps guard against category confusion.
Instead, there was the eternal category confusion of the classifier: that avoiding political embarrassment, and basic accountability, is the same thing as safeguarding national security.
It has the most nominations overall this year with 17 and everyone seems to have gotten over the category confusion, or at least stopped fighting it.
And Andrew Sullivan, perhaps needless to say, is on the case — see especially his post today on the Church's category confusion regarding sin and crime.
It's subject to a specific kind of category confusion, because marriage is not only a civil institution but also, for many people, a religious sacrament like baptism or communion.
The within-category confusion can be dealt with probabilistic patch descriptors, which encodes the appearance of an image fragment, and the variability within a category [101].
Therefore, although there is only one way to make a within-category confusion, there are six ways to make a between-category confusion.
For instance, a within-category confusion would occur if a subject misattributes a statement by a target with 4 days of tenure to a target with 5 days.
A between-category confusion would occur if a subject misattributes a statement by a target with 4 days of tenure to a target with 602 days.
Because this analysis creates two possible between-category confusions but only one possible within-category confusion, we multiplied between-category confusions by 1/2 to correct for differing base rates.
