Where distorting factors mean that utilization of services is not determined by need, the use-per-need view judges the access inequitable.
We investigated the effects of introducing a user fee as a possible distorting factor in the patterns of compliance and did not find any trend breaks, meaning that it did not have a significant effect on clinic attendance.
The other hugely distorting factor is banking.
Fourth, workplace unpleasantness is another possible distorting factor.
Various responses to this problem have been made, for the most part involving the addition of conditions concerning the manner in which such reflection must be made, for example that it must be free of certain distorting factors itself, it must reflect an adequate causal history, and the like (Christman 1991, Mele 1995).
Comparison of proposed traffic monitoring technique with current video-based ones shows that due to their independence in terms of interfering or distorting factors, capabilities, advantages, and disadvantages, as well as the potential extensions of the proposed system, it can be used in parallel with the current traffic monitoring systems complementarily to cover their drawbacks.
Assuming a fixed and realistic amount of occlusions,, we can explore the influence of the other distorting factors.
Other distorting factors behind the high relative prices of capital goods include the multiple exchange rates, the black market for foreign currencies, the depreciation of the national currency and high customs tariffs.
"So it's very difficult to get a gauge of underlying strength of High Street activity from these numbers, given so very big distorting factors".
He writes, "Knowledge of the possibility of unconscious factors distorting our view of our situation places on us a special duty of skeptical scrutiny".
