But for Stephen Black, a homebuilder here, the surge in home sales is a false signal.
Occasionally, the device would send a false signal that a cow was in heat, he said.
One or the other is giving off a false signal: economists at Goldman Sachs believe it is more likely to be the weekly jobless claims.
But for decades now, the central banks of the world have been giving policymakers a false signal that sovereign debt is cheap and limitless.
"Extending his contract would send a false signal of the level of competitive success that will merit a contract extension going forward".
Last year, oil may have been sending a false signal to central banks by pushing up headline inflation when the economy was already weakening.
Dr. Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Merck had asked him to examine the results of the Norwegian trial and he concluded it was probably a false signal.
However, back then, the ADP report gave a false signal for non-farm payrolls, which were virtually unchanged from the previous month (actually slightly down at 203,000 (revised) from 225,000).
But Dr. Roszkowski added that because many processes vary with the seasons on Earth, and because the expected modulation is so slight, minor errors in the analysis could produce a false signal.
If we included these other violent events in the hearings, we'd be sending the false signal that we think there's a security threat equivalency between Al Qaeda and the neo-Nazi movement, or Al Qaeda and gun groups.
If an economist had relied on this model over the past 60 years and declared that we were in a recession if the probability of one was greater than 50percentt for two months in a row, that economist would have correctly called every postwar recession without ever giving a false signal.
