"distorting impact" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the effect of something causing a distortion or alteration of the original state or perception. Example: The media's bias had a distorting impact on public opinion, causing many to have a skewed understanding of the issue at hand.
(As an example of the possibly distorting impact of provisioning, Hohmann noted that the Wamba females had far shorter intervals between births than those at Lomako).
Theoretical analysis can be used to gain insights into the potential distorting impact under a range of situations and to identify STE characteristics that may be more market-distorting than others.
Provincially the planning of the ART rollout and scale-up did not take sufficient account of the existing human resource shortages in the public sector, nor of the labour-intensive nature of the ART programme, and of the likely distorting impact of special incentives to attract staff to the ART programme on the PHC system as a whole.
On quarterly reporting, singled out by Kay for its distorting impact on company managers' time horizons, the government is likely to be very supportive.
It also underscores the distorting impact that aggressive marketing campaigns can have on medical prescribing -- and the need to evaluate whether the newest and priciest medication is necessarily the best.
As a single example of the distorting impact of their work, YouGov in December 2012, working for the TUC, found that the average public perception was that 41% of the welfare budget was spent on the unemployed.
News media are often blamed for distorting the impact of biotechnology research through overly aversive or favorable communications [ 13, 14].
In addition, we examined whether different methodological and analytic approaches to the study of HIV transmission risk could distort the impact of behavior changes like seroadaptive tactics on transmission incidence.
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Congress also keeps the official cost of the programs down, distorting their true impact on the budget.
In addition, they comment that the episode "explicitly criticizes media spin-doctors who distort the impacts of ecological degradation caused by wealthy corporations such as the nuclear power plant".
