The phrase "distorting results" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the alteration or misrepresentation of data or findings in research or analysis.
Example: "The use of biased sampling methods is distorting results and leading to inaccurate conclusions."
Alternatives: "skewing outcomes" or "misrepresenting findings."
A combination of parent contracts, exclusion and self-selection ensure that the most disadvantaged students remain outside the charters and in the neighbouring public system, further distorting results.
The review has been prompted by increasing concern that some sites have been distorting results to favour the power companies paying the most commission.
The threshold number of 100 was selected for practicality and to avoid the small study effects potentially distorting results of meta-analyses.
The suchthat clause activates a filter that weeds out shapes with accumulated probabilities <10−, which was shown to speed up the computation without significantly distorting results.
Thirdly, the consumption groups assessed do not account for those receiving government subsidies, hence there may be those belonging in the "poor" quintile that may have consumed more and hence be reported as higher quintile due to the subsidy negatively distorting results characterizing the effectiveness in MIP targeting.
But Professor Alt also acknowledges that the artificial environment of the laboratory can distort results.
That's up from 50-43 six weeks ago, but SurveyUSA uses automated questionnaires, which may distort results.
"It distorts results on education, employment, religion and other variables related to gender and age".
According to the researchers, there are two other major problems that can distort results in a study like this.
He shows the grainy, oddly distorted results, which he calls recordings, as DVD installations in art galleries.
Meat accounts for less than 10% of a burger's total cost, so this is unlikely to distort results hugely.
