Sentence examples for could have distorted from inspiring English sources

That made it difficult to determine whether the donors actually lived in the area, which could have distorted the results, officials said.

Myers suggested that precipitation could have been highly seasonal at the Wyoming site, and this could have distorted the estimate for the total rainfall.

Economists believe that flaws in how Chinese GDP is calculated, combined with political pressure to meet targets, could have distorted the official figures.

A word of caution: many of the survey questions dealt with issues of energy, the environment and conservation, which could have distorted some of the results (by leaving out some other pressing policy areas).

For example, common method biases could have distorted the results (Podsakoff et al. 2003).

Inaccurate meat inspection e.g. biased toward superficial lymph nodes could have distorted the relative proportion of lesions found in different organs.

But how could he have distorted the violence and racism of the time?

How could he have distorted the information he had in order to sell a fool's errand of war?

Although a loss to follow-up of 14% is not much, considering the period of 1 year, the imputation of missing values could still have distorted the results.

We applied these exclusion criteria because repeated presentation of alcohol cues to participants with alcohol-use disorders would have been unethical, and because ADHD is reliably associated with poor inhibitory control (Groman, James, & Jentsch, 2009) and could therefore have distorted our results.

Consequently, these limitations of the assessments of exposure may have affected their accuracy and could possibly have resulted in an underestimation of the risks associated with exposure to antineoplastic drugs or have distorted the shape of the dose-response relationship.