Sentence examples for error of confusing from inspiring English sources

"Juergens has made the common scientific error of confusing correlation even very strong correlation with causation," he says.

The error of confusing the Church-Turing thesis properly so-called with thesis M has led to some remarkable claims in the foundations of psychology.

Kant usually uses the term to refer to the error of confusing or substituting concepts and principles meant for use in experience (those which properly apply to appearances) with principles of "pure reason".

Alternatively, he may have made the common error of confusing distant icebergs with land, or been misled by the distorting effects of Antarctic mirage.

He said the paper by Dr. Juergens "has made the common scientific error of confusing correlation (even very strong correlation) with causation".

But Walter R. Tschinkel, a biologist from Florida State University who last year published an extensive examination of the fairy circles, said the cause was still a mystery, adding that Dr. Juergens "has made the common scientific error of confusing correlation (even very strong correlation) with causation".

Although phylogenetic analysis of many species of organisms often yields some conflict in resolution of the placement of some of the species in the system, this is always considered an error of analysis of confusing true shared evolutionary novelties with homoplasy; instances of shared retention of primitive similarities or the independent acquisition of confusingly similar structures.

Improvements on the Horizon: Because most insulin errors are the result of confusing various forms and doses of the drug, great hope is being pinned on electronic error correction systems, like those made by General Electric and health care technology firm McKesson.

However, when we compare genomes belonging to distant species, the difference in percent identity between orthologs and paralogs falls rapidly (see [ 28] for a detailed analysis), and the risk of confusing errors quickly increases.

As an enterprise software consultant working with telecoms, defense, and finance companies, Maynard saw all manner of confusing computer errors.

By the end, it's hard not to think that Banville himself has fallen into an error that his fictional Hermes observes in Adam Godley: "the peril of confusing the expression of something with the something itself".