Sentence examples for distort risk from inspiring English sources

**Letting popularity distort risk perception.

Lack of appropriate reporting of methodological details has previously been shown to distort risk of bias assessments in randomized controlled trials.

Such beliefs could cloud the participant's understanding of what the research involves, unduly influence his or her willingness to participate in cure studies, distort risk perception, and fuel risk behavior.

For conventional risk factors such as the use of hormonal replacement therapy, this could distort risk estimations, but will not invalidate analyses of genetic risk factors, as genotypes are permanent.

Yet in our prospectively designed study, exposure measurement error is likely to be non-differential by case status, whereas misclassification of physical activity level in case-control studies has been shown to distort risk estimates as a result of recall bias [ 51].

Yet the overall effect is to add ever more layers of state padding and distort risk-taking.This fits an historical pattern.

I have long noted that we distort risks -- trivializing those we feel we can control (such as our sugar intake, or driving too fast, or texting while driving), and exaggerating those we feel we cannot (such as BVO).

Although a small proportion of the general population selected option 6 in our study, an option that exacerbates "therapeutic misconception" could distort risk-benefit calculations by research participants, making true informed consent impossible [ 1, 7, 11, 12, 26, 36].

Bad "side effects" produced by goal-setting programs include a rise in unethical behavior, over-focus on one area while neglecting other parts of the business, distorted risk preferences, corrosion of organizational culture, and reduced intrinsic motivation.

(More on how the "terrorism industry" distorts risks can be found at tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com).nytimes.com

So we might smoke, drink heavily, be overweight, we might not take the medicines that our doctor has prescribed for us, but because of cognitive dissonance we distort the risk.