"cause mistakes" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to the cause of something going wrong. For example: "Lack of preparation caused mistakes during the presentation."
Distractions can cause mistakes or time lost, and studies show that even a 20- to 30-point score difference can affect admissions decisions and merit-based financial aid.
A moment's inattention on the part of the drilling technician, who is sitting at a console in his apartment and also checking his e-mail, can cause mistakes.
Dr. Kiev, applying some lessons learned from athletes, preaches that by closely monitoring their own behavior, traders, too, can figure out when their emotions are likely to limit performance or cause mistakes.
Many pharmacists fill hundreds of prescriptions a day; any distractions or interruptions during the busy period can cause mistakes, and make you have to wait even longer to get your prescription.
When teams do pick up the blitz or take shots down the field, they'll often succeed, but overall the relentless pressure will cause mistakes, break up the offense's rhythm and cause them to fall behind.
However, such rigid judgment criteria are likely to cause mistakes.
"(iii) the use of which is likely to cause confusion, to cause mistake, or to deceive; or".
As such, Disney wrote, the "mau5head" is "likely... to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive".
A small number of false positives are insufficient to cause mistaken identity of the host media.
(3) R = { r i | r i = L e n i / L e n max } Intradifference, the difference in a leaf species at individual leaves, may cause mistaken recognition.
For example, in estimating population-genetic statistics, because allelic dropout can cause mistaken assignment of heterozygous genotypes as homozygotes, it can lead to underestimation of the observed heterozygosity and overestimation of the inbreeding coefficient (Taberlet et al. 1999).
